Three divisions of the American Astronomical Society have announced the winners of their awards for 2003.
The Dirk Brouwer Award, presented by the division on dynamical astronomy, went this year to William Ward, institute scientist in the space studies department at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He was recognized for his “many contributions to the field of dynamical astronomy over the past 30 years.”
The historical astronomy division awarded the LeRoy Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy to Michael Hoskin, a fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University. According to the citation, he has “long been renowned for both his scholarship and the high standards he has maintained in editing and publishing,” and, as founder and editor of the Journal for the History of Astronomy , he has “helped to define the field of historical astronomy and give it a central focus.”
Reta Beebe received the...
