In Memoriam: Astronomer and astrophysicist Jerry Nelson

Also in 2010, Nelson was named a winner of the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics -- along with Ray Wilson, formerly of Imperial College London and the European Southern Observatory, and Roger Angel, of the University of Arizona -- for innovations in the field of telescope design.

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