Work ranging from the study of asteroids, stellar spectroscopy, and extrasolar planets to the investigation of distant galaxies and the development of astronomical detectors has been honored by the American Astronomical Society in its selection of nine award winners for this year.
The 2007 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, awarded jointly by the American Institute of Physics and AAS, is going to Robert C. Kennicutt Jr “for his outstanding contributions to extragalactic astrophysics, in particular to our understanding of the large-scale properties of star formation in galaxies,” according to the award citation. Kennicutt is the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
David L. Lambert is being awarded the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship for 2007, the society's highest honor. Director of the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also the Isabel McCutcheon Harte Centennial Chair of Astronomy, Lambert is...
