The following AAPT awards were presented at the 2015 AAPT Summer Meeting in College Park, MD.
David A. Weintraub of the Vanderbilt University Department of Physics and Astronomy is the 2015 recipient of the Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award.
Weintraub earned his BS at Yale, and both his MS and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Florida before joining the astronomy faculty of Vanderbilt University in 1991.
Weintraub excels at presenting science to the public in an entertaining and comprehensible manner, as well as exploring the humanistic aspects of science with his students. He is the author of three popular astronomy books: Is Pluto a Planet? (Princeton University Press, 2006), How Old is the Universe? (Princeton University Press, 2011), and Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It? (Springer Praxis Books, 2014). All three of these books...