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George Van Biesbroeck Prize

Index George Van Biesbroeck Prize

The George Van Biesbroeck Prize is an award for long-term achievements in the field of astronomy. [1]

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Aden Meinel

Aden B. Meinel (November 25, 1922 – October 3, 2011) was an American astronomer.

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American Astronomical Society

The American Astronomical Society (AAS, sometimes spoken as "double-A-S") is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC.

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Arlo U. Landolt

Arlo Udell Landolt (born September 29, 1935) is an American astronomer.

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Brian G. Marsden

Brian Geoffrey Marsden (5 August 1937 – 18 November 2010) was an English astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (director emeritus from 2006 to 2010).

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Catholic Church and science

The relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and science is a widely debated subject.

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D. Harold McNamara

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Donat Wentzel

Donat Wentzel (June 25, 1934 – February 20, 2013) was an American astrophysicist, best known as astronomy educator of undergraduates, graduates, and young researchers.

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Dorrit Hoffleit

Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit (March 12, 1907 – April 9, 2007) was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University.

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George Van Biesbroeck

George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck, January 21, 1880 – February 23, 1974) was a Belgian–American astronomer.

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Janet Akyüz Mattei

Janet Akyüz Mattei (January 2, 1943 – March 22, 2004) was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004.

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Jeremy Mould

Jeremy R. Mould (born 31 July 1949 in Bristol) is an Australian astronomer currently at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology.

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List of awards named after people

This is a list of prizes that are named after people.

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List of science and technology awards

A list of medals, prizes, and other awards in the fields of science, technology, engineering and social science.

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Marc Aaronson

Marc Aaronson (24 August 1950 – 30 April 1987) was an American astronomer.

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Marc Aaronson Memorial Lectureship

The Marc Aaronson Memorial Lectureship, also known as the Aaronson Prize, is an award of the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory which promotes and recognizes excellence in astronomical research.

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Meg Urry

Claudia Megan "Meg" Urry is an American astrophysicist, who was from 2015–2016 the President of the American Astronomical Society, formerly on the Hubble space telescope faculty and was chair of the Department of Physics at Yale University 2007–2013.

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Michael J. Kurtz

Michael J Kurtz is an astrophysicist at Harvard University, He has held the title of Astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics since 1983, and the addition post of Computer Scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory since 1984.

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Rodger Doxsey

Rodger Evans Doxsey (March 11, 1947 – October 13, 2009)Overbye, Dennis:, The New York Times, October 18, 2009.

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Stephen P. Maran

* Stephen P. Maran is an American astronomer and popularizer who is known for his books, articles, and popular lectures for the general public, including Astronomy For Dummies.

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Vatican Observatory

The Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana) is an astronomical research and educational institution supported by the Holy See.

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Virginia Louise Trimble

Virginia Louise Trimble (born 1943) is an American astronomer specializing in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, and the history of astronomy.

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1781 Van Biesbroeck

1781 Van Biesbroeck, provisional designation, is a dynamical Vestian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8.5 kilometers in diameter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Biesbroeck_Prize

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