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  George Van Biesbroeck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck) (January 21, 1880 – February 23, 1974) was a Belgian-American astronomer.
The asteroid 1781 Van Biesbroeck is named after him, as are Van Biesbroeck crater on the Moon and the red dwarf Van Briesboeck's Star (Wolf 1055 AB).
The George Van Biesbroeck Prize, awarded by the American Astronomical Society, is named in his honor as well.
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 AAS Prizes and Awards
The prize recipient shall be invited to present a paper on the subject for which the prize was granted at a meeting designated by the Council.
The Van Biesbroeck prize is normally awarded every two years, honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy, often beyond the requirements of his or her paid position.
The AAS Education Prize is to recognize outstanding contributions to the education of the public, students and/or the next generation of professional astronomers.
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 George Van Biesbroeck Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The George Van Biesbroeck Prize is awarded annually, honoring a living individual for a long-term achievement in the field of astronomy, typically far beyond the requirements of an awardee's paid position.
The American Astronomical Society assumed responsibility for the Van Biesbroeck Prize in 1997.
The prize is named after George Van Biesbroeck.
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 Prix et récompenses en astronomie - CIRS
The Van Biesbroeck prize is normally awarded annually, honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy, often beyond the requirements of his or her paid position.
The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize (hereafter referred to as the Kuiper Prize), was established by the DPS to recognize and honor outstanding contributors to planetary science.
The Harold C. Urey Prize (hereafter referred to as the Urey Prize), was established by the DPS to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in planetary science by a young scientist.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: List_of_prizes,_medals,_and_awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize" is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics".
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 GEORGE VAN BIESBROECK PRIZE COMMITTEE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The AAS assumed responsibility for the Prize from June 1997.
No member of the Committee may receive the Prize during his or her tenure on the Committee.
Charge: The prize normally will be awarded annually to a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy, often beyond the requirements of his or her paid position.
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Prizes named after people
Charles Stark Draper Prize – Charles Stark Draper
George Van Biesbroeck PrizeGeorge Van Biesbroeck
John von Neumann Theory Prize, IEEE John von Neumann Medal – John von Neumann
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: American_Astronomical_Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The main aim of the AAS is provide a political voice for its members and organise their lobbying.
The group was founded in 1899 by the efforts of George Ellery Hale.
The constitution of the group was written by Hale, George Comstock, Edward Morley, Simon Newcomb and Edward Pickering.
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 DDO Doings index / table of contents David Dunlap Observatory
Dr Chris Coutts and the van den Berghs "represented the Observatory at the meeting of the AAS in Honolulu...." Fernie, Garrison, Heard, Kronberg, MacRae, Roeder, and van den Bergh attended the May meeting of the National Committee for the IAU at UBC.
van den Bergh to G”ttingen and Cornell for colloquia.
MacRae, Racine, and van den Bergh to Geneva for ESO/SRC symposium.
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 Physics Today Online - We Hear That
The Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize for 2000 was presented to Charles Alcock for his work as principal investigator on the project to search for massive compact halo objects (MACHOs).
Harold McNamara, professor of astronomy at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, garnered the 2000 George Van Biesbroeck Prize.
Kirpal Nandra received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize for 2000 in recognition of his use of data from an assortment of x-ray satellites to identify reflection spectra and broadened iron lines from accretion disks in active galactic nuclei.
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King Oscar II initially did not approve of awarding grand national prizes to foreigners, but is said to have changed his mind after realising the publicity value of the prizes for the country.
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 CWHF-Dorrit Hoffleit
Under the supervision of Harlow Shapley she went on to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy in 1938 for which she was awarded the Carolyn Wilby Prize for the best original research.
Hoffleit's many awards include the 1988 George van Biesbroeck Award for dedication to Astronomy and the 1993 AAS-Annenberg Prize for science education.
She is the past president of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, Asteroid Dorrit was named after her, and a Hoffleit Assistantship was established at the Mitchell observatory to honor her work.
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 American Astronomical Society Honors NRAO Scientist
The Van Biesbroeck Prize "honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy, often beyond the requirements of his or her paid position." The AAS, with about 7,000 members, is the major organization of professional astronomers in North America.
The AAS citation reads, "The 2005 Van Biesbroeck Prize is awarded to Dr. Eric Greisen of NRAO for the initiation, development, and maintenance for twenty-five years of the Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS).
Greisen is the second NRAO scientist to receive the Van Biesbroeck Prize.
www.nrao.edu /pr/2005/greisen   (678 words)

  
 Art Fresh : Article 'John Llewellyn Rhys Prize'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a British based literary prize.
The prize was inititated in 1942 by Jane Oliver to commemorate her husband John Llewellyn Rhys, a young author who had been killed in the Second World War.
He was also nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982 for An Ice Cream War, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize the same year.
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 Physics Today June 2001
Elmgreen is being recognized for contributions that "span a remarkable range from theoretical studies of key processes in the interstellar medium to the physics of galaxy-wide starbursts, to investigations of dynamical features, including spiral arms and bars in galaxies."
The Newton Lacy Pierce Prize will be given this year to Kenneth Sembach, a research scientist at Johns Hopkins University.
Sembach is being acknowledged for work "that has been important in increasing our understanding of the structure and elemental abundances of the gaseous component of the Galaxy, especially of the galactic halo, as well as in discovering new facets of the high-velocity cloud phenomenon in the galactic periphery."
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 HubbleSite - 2004 Van Biesbroeck Prize Awarded to Doxsey - 1/15/2004
Citing "his outstanding, unselfish dedication to making the Hubble Space Telescope one of the most scientifically productive telescopes of all time," the American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced that Dr. Rodger Doxsey of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., will receive the 2004 George Van Biesbroeck Prize.
The prize "honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy, often beyond the requirements of his or her paid position." The announcement was made last week at the AAS winter meeting in Atlanta, Ga. Doxsey is the second institute scientist to win the award.
The award is named for astronomer George Van Biesbroeck (1880-1974), who studied minor planets, comets, satellites, and double stars.
hubblesite.org /newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/03   (148 words)

  
 2004 Van Biesbroeck Prize Awarded to Doxsey | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
The late Barry Lasker garnered the prize in 1999.
Doxsey, the head of the institute's Hubble Mission Office, said he was surprised at winning the award.
He has worked unselfishly for 22 years to make Hubble the greatest scientific facility in the world, and I am delighted that the AAS has rewarded him with the Van Biesbroeck prize, a most appropriate award to someone who has given his life to enabling others to do great science.
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 BBC - Astronomy: Stardate
He's helped recover comets and asteroids that had been "lost" due to a lack of accurate observational data - most notably, it was Brian who predicted that Swift-Tuttle was going to return in 1992, giving warning of the reappearance of a comet believed to have been lost in space.
He received the George Van Biesbroeck Prize in 1989 in recognition of his long record of achievements.
He and his team have collected the radar echoes from 200 asteroids, including rocks in the belt between Mars and Jupiter; radar feedback like this has revealed many exotic shapes of asteroid and strange motions - including the "slow wobble" of Toutatis.
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The award is named after Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954), a British mathematician considered to be one of the fathers of modern computer science.
The Turing Award is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of computing".
It is sponsored by Intel Corporation and currently has a value of US $100,000.
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His research focused on improving the accuracy of trace analysis of metals in liquids.
Jesika Henderson, an incoming freshman from St. George, Utah, was named America's Junior Miss 2000 at the national pageant in June.
Harold McNamara, professor of physics and astronomy, received the 2000 George Van Biesbroeck Prize at the general meeting of the American Astronomical Society in June.
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 El Defensor Chieftain: NRAO scientist awarded major astronomy prize
The American Astronomical Society has awarded its prestigious George Van Biesbroeck Prize to Dr. Eric Greisen of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro.
The AAS citation reads, "The 2005 Van Biesbroeck Prize is awarded to Dr. Eric Greisen of NRAO for the initiation, development, and maintenance for twenty-five years of the Astronomical Image Processing System.
Barry Clark, one of the early architects of the VLA who has scheduled that telescope's observations for nearly three decades, received the award in 1991.
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 American Astronomical Society Article, AmericanAstronomicalSociety Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The main aim of the AAS is providea political voice for its members and organise their lobbying.
The constitution of the group was written by Hale, George Comstock, Edward Morley, SimonNewcomb and Edward Pickering.
The Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (joint award with the AmericanInstitute of Physics)
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 Pluto Articles in Refereed Journals (sorted by date)
Observations of comets, minor planets, Pluto, and satellites, Van Biesbroeck, G., Vesely, C. D., Aksnes, K., and Marsden, B. Astronomical Journal, vol.
Positions of planet Pluto, Van Biesbroeck, G. 1963, Astronomical Journal, Vol.
Observations of comets and Pluto with the 24-inch reflector of the Yerkes Observatory, Van Biesbroeck, G. 1945, Astronomical Journal, Vol.
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