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The Karl G. Jansky Lectureship
Karl Jansky
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The Karl G. Jansky Lectureship is an honor established by the
trustees of Associated Universities, Inc., to recognize outstanding
contributions to the advancement of radio astronomy. First awarded in
1966, it is named in honor of the man who, in 1932, first detected
radio waves from a cosmic source. Karl Jansky's discovery of radio
waves from the central region of our Milky Way Galaxy started the
science of radio astronomy.
The recipient of this award will present the annual Karl G. Jansky
Lecture at the NRAO facilities in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in
Socorro, New Mexico. A Lecture at our Green Bank, West Virginia site will
be at the awardee's discretion. Professional astronomical symposia may be
conducted during the day prior to the evening lecture.
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Recipients of the Jansky Lectureship
The recipients of the Karl G. Jansky Lectureship, the year of their
award, their institutional affiliations, and the titles of their
lectures, are listed below.
- 2008
- Dr. Arthur M. Wolfe
University of California, San Diego
Finding the Gas that Makes Galaxies
- 2007
- Dr. Karl M. Menten
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Tuning in to the Molecular Universe
- 2006
- Dr. Frank J. Low
Infrared Laboratories, Inc.
How the Spitzer Space Telescope was Designed, Tested and Built
- 2005
- Dr. Rashid A. Sunyaev
Director, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Clusters of Galaxies and Cosmology
- 2004
- Dr. Ronald D. Ekers
Australia Telescope National Facility
Paths to Discovery
- 2003
- Dr. Donald C. Backer
Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley
Massive Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Pulsars
- 2002
- Dr. Shrinivas (Shri) Kulkarni
California Institute of Technology
The Brightest Explosions in the Universe
- 2001
- Dr. William J. (Jack) Welch
University of California at Berkeley
Astronomical Arrays of the Future; Astronomy, SETI, and More
- 2000
- Dr. V. Radhakrishnan
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Astronomy's Devices
- 1999
- Dr. Frank D. Drake
SETI Institute and University of California, Santa Cruz
Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- 1998
- Dr. Bernard Burke
William A. M. Burden Professor of Astrophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Radio Telescopes: Reaching for the Astronomical Frontiers
- 1997
- Dr. P. James E. Peebles
Princeton University
The Big Bang and Our Evolving Universe
- 1996
- Dr. James M. Moran
Harvard University and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Brilliant Masers and Mysterious Black Holes
- 1995
- Dr. Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Tick, Tick, Tick, Pulsating Star, How We Wonder What You Are
- 1994
- Dr. Vera C. Rubin
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
What's the Matter in the Universe
- 1993
- Dr. David S. Heeschen
Former Director, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The Development of Radio Astronomy in the United States
- 1992
- Dr. Irwin I. Shapiro
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Reckoning the Size of the Universe Through Gravitational Lenses
- 1991
- Dr. Allan R. Sandage
The Observatories of Carnegie Institution
The Quest for the Curvature of Space
- 1990
- Prof. Alan H. Barrett
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Emeritus)
Molecular Radio Astronomy: The Beginnings
- 1989
- Prof. Joseph H. Taylor
Dept. of Physics, Princeton University (Nobel Prize 1993)
Time and the Nature of the Universe
- 1988
- Prof. William A. Fowler
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
California Institute of Technology (Nobel Prize 1983)
The Age of the Observable Universe
- 1987
- Prof. Hendrik van de Hulst
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Far from the Stars
- 1986
- Prof. Robert Hanbury Brown
Department of Physics, University of Sydney
Stars, Photons, and Uncommon Sense
- 1985
- Prof. G. R. Burbidge
University of California, San Diego
How Strange the Violent Universe?
- 1984
- Dr. Robert W. Wilson
Head, Radio Physics Research Department, Bell Laboratories (Nobel Prize 1978)
Millimeter Wave Astronomy
- 1983
- Dr. Arno Penzias
Vice President, Research, Bell Laboratories (Nobel Prize 1978)
The Astronomical Origin of the Earth's Materials
- 1982
- Prof. Philip Morrison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The New Waves: Fifty Years of Radio Astronomy
- 1981
- Prof. Martin Rees
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, and Director, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, England
The Next Hundred Billion Years
- 1980
- Dr. Martin Schwarzschild
Princeton University
What Shape Galaxies, Pancakes or Potatoes?
- 1979
- Dr. Maarten Schmidt
Director, Hale Observatories
Quasars as Probes of the Early Universe
- 1978
- Prof. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago (Nobel Prize 1983)
General Relativity in Astronomy at Einstein's Centennial
- 1977
- Prof. E. Margaret Burbidge
University of California, San Diego
Galaxies, Quasars, and the Space Telescope
- 1976
- Prof. Edward M. Purcell
Harvard University (Nobel Prize 1952)
A Story of Spinning Particles
- 1975
- Dr. Grote Reber
CSIRO, Tasmania, Australia
Beginning of Radio Astronomy
- 1974
- Dr. Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
Chairman, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences; Director, Princeton University Observatory
A Space Astronomer Looks at the Interstellar Medium
- 1974
- Dr. Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
Chairman, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences; Director, Princeton University Observatory
A Space Astronomer Looks at the Interstellar Medium
- 1973
- Dr. J. Paul Wild
Chief, Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
Exploring the Sun with Radio Waves
- 1972
- Prof. Bart J. Bok
Steward Observatory
Star Birth in the Galaxy
- 1971
- Prof. Charles H. Townes
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (Nobel Prize 1964)
Exploring for the Creation
- 1970
- Prof. Robert H. Dicke
Physics Department, Princeton University
Gravitation and the Universe
- 1969
- Prof. Fred Hoyle
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, University of Cambridge, England
The Relationship of Astronomy and Physics
- 1968
- Prof. J. S. Shklovsky
Head, Radio Astronomy Department, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, USSR
On the Variability of Cosmic Radio Source Emission
- 1967
- Prof. J. H. Oort
Director, Leiden Observatory
Large-scale Distribution and Motion of Hydrogen in the Galaxy
- 1966
- Mr. John G. Bolton
Director, Australian National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Radio Astronomy: Steppingstones to Quasars
Modified on Wednesday, 07-May-2008 13:51:45 EDT by Pat Murphy
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