This month, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific will present its awards for 2002 during its annual meeting at the University of California, Berkeley.
The ASP’s highest honor, the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, will go to Bohdan Paczynski, Lyman Spitzer Jr Professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University. The society is recognizing his “revolutionary work in many fields of astronomy” and notes that he has made “major contributions to our understanding of interacting binary stars.”
Volker Bromm will receive the Robert J. Trumpler Award, which is presented to a recent PhD recipient whose doctoral research is considered unusually important to astronomy. Bromm earned his doctorate in 2000 from Yale University under the guidance of Richard Larson and Paolo Coppi. His dissertation was entitled “Star Formation in the Early Universe.” He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
The ASP will present its Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts Award, which...
