Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation

The Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation is awarded by the American Astronomical Society to an individual for the design, invention or significant improvement of instrumentation leading to advances in astronomy. [1] It is named after physicist Joseph Weber. The awards tend to be for a career of instrument development rather than a single specific device; the lists of inventions below are taken from press releases from the recipients' institutions.

Weber Award winners

Source: American Astronomical Society

YearRecipientInventions
2002James E. GunnCCDs in astronomy: WFPC on Hubble, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ...
2003Frank J. LowIR detection by bolometer arrays
2004Thomas G. PhillipsSub-millimetre and terahertz instrumentation
2005Stephen ShectmanActive optics
2006Roger AngelAdaptive optics for infra-red spectroscopy
2007Harvey MoseleyMicroshutter arrays, X-ray microcalorimeter
2008James R. HouckSpectrographs for infrared astronomy
2009Peter SerlemitsosX-ray detector and telescope designs
2010Donald N. B. HallLow noise detectors for observational infrared astronomy
2011Edward S. ChengSeveral key instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope
2012Thijs de GraauwShort Wavelength Spectrometer on ISO and the Heterodyne Instrument For the Infrared on Herschel
2013Keith MatthewsInfrared astronomical instrumentation
2014Sander WeinrebDigital auto-correlation spectrometers and cryogenic low-noise amplifiers and mixers
2015Claire E. MaxAdaptive optics with sodium laser guide stars
2016James J. (Jamie) BockLow noise “spider web” bolometers
2017Ian S. McLeanInfrared sensor arrays
2018Rainer WeissInterferometric gravitational wave detector

References

  1. ↑ "Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
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