Six professors, a researcher, and a staff astronomer are receiving awards from the American Astronomical Society.
AAS and the American Institute of Physics are jointly awarding the 2006 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics to Marc Davis, a professor of astronomy and physics at the University of California, Berkeley, “for his pioneering work on the large-scale structure in the Universe.” The committee choosing the prizewinner recognizes Davis for “his innovative and influential contributions to observations, simulations and instrumentation, and his outstanding mentoring of students, as examples of outstanding work in the field of astrophysics.”
J. Roger Angel, director of the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory, director of the Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics, Regents Professor of Astronomy, and Regents Professor of Optical Sciences, all at the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the recipient of the Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation for 2006. He was selected “for his superlative work...