Conway Leovy (July 16, 1933 – July 9, 2011) was a professor

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of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysics at the

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author, former

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Trustee, Fellow of the

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, and

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political activist. He was awarded the

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and was a co-recipient of the

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(AAAS)

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. In 2000 he won The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize, awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of planetary science.

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