In July, the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur in Nice, France, announced the winner of its 2002 Medaille de l’ADION (Medal of the Association for the International Development of the Observatory of Nice). Margaret J. Geller, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is being recognized for her “eminent contributions to the study of the structure and evolution of systems of galaxies.” She will receive the medal during a ceremony to be held in Nice next spring.
In August, Maxim Marchevsky, previously a postdoctoral researcher at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, joined the physics faculty at Syracuse University as an assistant professor of physics.
The UK’s Royal Astronomical Society presented three medals in 2002. Leon Mestel received the Gold Medal in Astronomy for his work on a variety of stellar and galactic problems, especially ones involving magnetic fields. He is an emeritus...
