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Carl Sagan Medal
The Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science is an award established by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society to recognize and honor outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public. It is awarded to scientists whose efforts have significantly contributed to a public understanding of, and enthusiasm for planetary science Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of .... Carl Sagan Medal winners See also * List of astronomy awards References {{Carl Sagan, state=collapsed Astronomy prizes Carl Sagan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division For Planetary Sciences
The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) is a division within the American Astronomical Society (AAS) devoted to Solar System research. It was founded in 1968. The first organizing committee members were: Edward Anders, Lewis Branscomb, Joseph W. Chamberlain, Richard M. Goody, John S. Hall, Arvidas Kliore, Michael B. McElroy, Tobias Owen, Gordon Pettengill, Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including e ..., and Harlan James Smith. As of 2009, it is the largest special-interest division within the AAS. As of Oct 2010, membership totaled approximately 1415 planetary scientists and astronomers, including about 20% residing outside the U.S. DPS sponsors six prizes. The Kuiper Prize honors outstanding contributions to the field of planetary science. The Urey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Consolmagno
Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ (born September 19, 1952), is an American research astronomer, physicist, religious brother, director of the Vatican Observatory, and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. Life Consolmagno attended the University of Detroit Jesuit High School before he obtained his S.B. (1974) and S.M. (1975) degrees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. (1978) at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, all in planetary science. After postdoctoral research and teaching from 1978 to 1980 at Harvard College Observatory and from 1980 to 1983 at MIT, in 1983 he joined the US Peace Corps to serve in Kenya for two years, teaching astronomy and physics. After his return he took a position as Assistant Professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. In 1989 he entered the Society of Jesus, and took vows as a brother in 1991. On entry into the order, he was assigned as an astronomer to the Vatican Observatory, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark, New Jersey, Newark in 1747 and then to its Mercer County, New Jersey, Mercer County campus in Princeton nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University. The university is governed by the Trustees of Princeton University and has an endowment of $37.7 billion, the largest List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment, endowment per student in the United States. Princeton provides undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate education, graduate instruction in the hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Astronomy Awards ...
This list of astronomy awards is an index to articles about notable awards for contributions to astronomy. The list is organized by region and country of the sponsoring organization, but awards are not necessarily limited to people from that country. Americas Asia Europe Oceania See also * Lists of awards * Lists of science and technology awards References {{DEFAULTSORT:Astronomy awards Astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Scharf
Caleb Asa Scharf is a British-American astronomer and popular science author. He is currently the senior scientist for astrobiology at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He formerly served as the director of the multidisciplinary Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, New York. Also active as a science communicator, Scharf was the 2022 recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal, awarded by the American Astronomical Society for excellence in public communication of planetary science. Early life and education He received a B.Sc. in Physics from Durham University and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge. Research Scharf conducted postdoctoral work in X-ray astronomy and observational cosmology at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland. He has an extensive research record in observational cosmology but more recently works on topics in exoplanetary science and astrobiology. Writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Frank
Adam Frank (born 1962) is an American physicist, astronomer, and writer. His scientific research has focused on computational astrophysics with an emphasis on star formation and late stages of stellar evolution. His work includes studies of exoplanet atmospheres and astrobiology. The latter include studies of the generic response of planets to the evolution of energy-intensive civilizations ( exo-civilizations). His popular writing has focused on issues of science in its cultural context. Topics include: issues of climate and the human future, technology, and cultural evolution; the nature of mind and experience; science and religion. He is a co-founder of the ''13.7 Cosmos and Culture Blog'' that originated on National Public Radio (NPR), and he is a regular on-air contributor to NPR's ''All Things Considered''. He is an occasional contributor to the ''New York Times''. Life and career Frank was born on August 1, 1962, in Belleville, New Jersey. He attended the University of Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolle Zellner
Nicolle Elisabeth Brigitte Zellner is an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and astrobiologist whose research concerns impact events on the Moon, especially during the Late Heavy Bombardment, the evidence for these impacts left in lunar glass, and the effects of impacts on the development of life on Earth. As well as for her research, she is known for her extensive efforts in the public outreach of space science. She is a professor of physics and Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Trustees’ Professor in the Sciences at Albion College in Michigan. Education and career Zellner studied physics and astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 1993. As an undergraduate, she worked at the university's Pine Bluff Observatory. She credits Wisconsin astronomy researchers Marilyn Meade and Karen Bjorkman for inspiring her to aim for a career in academic astronomy. After working at the university and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a research scientist, she re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Jayawardhana
Ray Jayawardhana is provost and professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this, from 2018 to 2023, he was the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Early life and education Jayawardhana was born and raised in Sri Lanka, where he attended St. John's College and Royal College Colombo prior to pursuing higher education in the United States. In 1994, he received his B.S. degree from Yale University. In 2000, he was awarded his Ph.D. from Harvard University. As a graduate student at Harvard, he led one of the two teams that discovered a dusty disk around HR 4796, a young star, with a large inner hole, which was possibly carved out during the planet formation processes. At Harvard, his group played a role in establishing that young brown dwarfs undergo a T Tauri phase, similar to young Sun-like stars, with evidence for dusty disks and signatures of disk accretion and outflow. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Nugent
Carrie Nugent (born 1984) is an assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science at Olin College. She studies near-Earth objects. She is also a popular science communicator, and is a Senior TED Fellow. The asteroid 8801 Nugent was named after her. Early life and education Nugent studied at Mira Costa High School, graduating in the class of 2002. She earned an undergraduate degree in physics. She studied geophysics at University of California, Los Angeles, and earned her PhD in 2013. She was supervised by Jean-Luc Margot and investigated the Yarkovsky effect. She served as an Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) Fellow from 2015. She worked at the Summer App Space, a Los Angeles based apprenticeship for people to learn programming whilst working on space projects. Research and career Nugent worked with the Near-Earth Object part of the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, known as NEOWISE. She was part of the Near-Earth Object Camera asteroid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Buratti
Bonnie J. Buratti (born 1952) is an American planetary scientist in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she leads the Comets, Asteroids, and Satellites Group. Her research involves the composition and physical properties of planetary surfaces, and volatile transport in the outer solar system. Education Buratti received an M.S. in Earth and Planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. and PhD in Astronomy and Space Sciences from Cornell University. Career Buratti has worked on the Voyager Program, the ''Cassini–Huygens'' spacecraft (for which she served as Co-Investigator on the VIMS instrument), and the ''New Horizons'' space probe. For her work with the Cassini program she was awarded the NASA exceptional achievement medal in 2006. Buratti also does educational outreach at the college and grade school level. In 2014 she was elected Chair of the Division of Planetary Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Throop
Henry B. Throop (born 1972), is an American astronomer and planetary scientist who specializes in the dynamics of rings and dust in the outer solar system. Throop is a member of the science team for NASA's ''New Horizons'' mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, and has been involved with NASA missions throughout the Solar System. Throop lives in Washington, DC where he runs NASA's science programs in the outer Solar System. He has done extensive education and outreach around the world, having spent nearly a decade as an astronomer living in South Africa, India, and Mexico. The asteroid 193736 Henrythroop is named after him. Professional History Throop had his BA from Grinnell College, 1994 and he received a PhD in Planetary Science from the University of Colorado, USA, in 2000. Then he left the University of Colorado and moved to Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), Boulder as a Senior Research Scientist during 2000–2008. There he worked on Cassini rings observations at Jupi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Schwamb
Megan E. Schwamb (born 1984) is an American astronomer and planetary scientist, and lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. Schwamb has discovered and co-discovered several trans-Neptunian objects, and is involved with Citizen science projects such as Zooniverse#Space projects, Planet Four and Planet Hunters. Biography In 2006, Schwamb graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. summa cum laude with Distinction in physics. She went on to study astrophysics in the California Institute of Technology, graduated Master of Science in 2008. Schwamb finished her Ph.D. in planetary science in 2011, also from the California Institute of Technology. Her thesis was researching "Beyond Sedna: Probing the Distant Solar System", and her advisor was Michael E. Brown, Michael Brown. Between 2010 and 2013, Schwamb was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. She worked at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Academia Sinica in Taipei in Taiwan, Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
