X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory

Awards

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NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

January 1, 2023

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HEAD Innovation Prize

January 11, 2024

Tim Kallman and Javier Garcia (662) have been awarded the 2024’s AAD HEAD Innovation Prize! They share the award with Thomas Dauser “for the development of novel models to describe emission in the strong gravity regime from accreting compact objects.”
The HEAD Innovation Prize

Excellence in Mentoring

January 1, 2023

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NASA Honor Award - Silver Achievement Medal (Group)

January 1, 2022

Recipients: X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC) Payload Team

NASA Honor Award - Early Career Achievement Medal

January 1, 2022

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Robert H. Goddard Award – Technician

July 13, 2022

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Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

July 13, 2022

Robert H. Goddard Award – Leadership

July 13, 2022

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The Bruno Rossi Prize

March 1, 2022

Recipients: NICER Mission

The top prize in high-energy astrophysics has been awarded to the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) team for the instrument and the revelations it is producing about the physics of neutron stars and their environments.

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Public Service Medal

January 1, 2021

Recipients: Antonella Nota

NASA Honor Award - Distinguished Service Medal

January 1, 2021

Recipients: Joan Centrella

HEAD Innovation Prize

January 1, 2022

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The HEAD Innovation Prize recognizes the development of foundational, innovative and/or revolutionary instrumentation or software tools that have led to groundbreaking results in high-energy astrophysics. The 2022 Innovation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Keith Arnaud (GSFC and the University of Maryland) “for continuous innovation in developing and maintaining XSPEC, the X-ray spectral fitting package, which has become the world standard for analysis of spectra from X-ray and Gamma-ray missions.”

Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit

January 1, 2021

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Robert H. Goddard Award – Engineering Teams

January 1, 2020

Recipients: Resolve Instrument Flight Hardware Deliveries

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

January 1, 2020

Recipients: Emily Gilbert

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

September 29, 2020

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NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal

September 29, 2020

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NASA Honor Award - Early Career Achievement Medal

September 29, 2020

GSFC Honor Award - Science

January 1, 2019

GSFC Honor Award - Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit

January 1, 2019

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AAS Fellows

February 25, 2020

The Fellows program of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America, was established in 2019 to honor members for their contributions toward the AAS mission of enhancing and sharing humanity's scientific understanding of the universe. The following members of ASD were honored among the first group of AAS Fellows, announced Feb. 25:

Edward Cheng
Alice Harding
Sangeeta Malhotra
Maxim Markevitch
John Mather
William Pence
Tod Strohmayer
Jean Hebb Swank
Kimberly Weaver

John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science

December 11, 2019

Drs. Keith Gendreau and Zaven Arzoumanian are the joint winners of the 2019 John C. Lindsay Award for Space Science. Keith and Zaven are being recognized for their development of the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) instrument, and the revelations of the physics of neutron stars and their environments that NICER is producing. Keith is the PI of NICER and Zaven is the Deputy PI.

IRAD Innovator of the Year

October 1, 2019

Goddard’s Office of the Chief Technologist has named astrophysicist William Zhang as IRAD (Internal Research and Development) Innovator of the Year, an honor the office bestows annually on individuals who demonstrate the best in innovation.

Chosen because of his foresight, perseverance, and leadership, Zhang spent nearly two decades advancing the state-of-the-art in X-ray optics. He and his team ultimately succeeded in their years- long endeavor, creating a new type of optic, made of mono-crystalline silicon, an abundantly available material commonly used to manufacture computer chips.

ASD Peer Award

July 23, 2019

Congratulations to this year's ASD Peer Award winners: Jennifer Ballard, Thomas Barclay, Sean Blumberg, Ruth Carter, Daniel Dizon, David Friedlander, Jeanette Kazmierczak, Samuel J. Moseley, Elmer Sharp, Teresa Sheets, and Jennifer Wiseman.

Contact Us

Ann Hornschemeier
Chief
301-286-7632
ann.h.cardiff@nasa.gov
Timothy Kallman
Associate Lab Chief
301-286-3680
timothy.r.kallman@nasa.gov
Allison Gorman
301-263-5937
allison.m.gorman@nasa.gov