American Astronomical Society Names Two More Prize Recipients for 2021
The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America, has named two more prize recipients, adding to the ones announced last month (https://aas.org/press/aas-nam
The 2021 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (https://aas.org/grants-and-pr
Bill Paxton (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara) is receiving the 2021 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (https://aas.org/grants-and-pr
“I’m not surprised to see Bekki Dawson honored with another Society prize,” says AAS President Paula Szkody (University of Washington). “She’s been a rising star in our field since her graduate-student days. And I’m very happy to see Bill Paxton’s work celebrated with the Tinsley Prize. He describes himself as a computer scientist, but through his collaborations with astronomers, he has developed software without which stellar astrophysics would not be nearly as advanced as it is today.”
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