Conway Leovy (July 16, 1933 – July 9, 2011) was a professor emeritus 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 American political activist. He was awarded the

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Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal and was a co-recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (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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1933 births 2011 deaths Fellows of the American Meteorological Society University of Washington faculty {{US-scientist-stub