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George W. Goddard Award

The George W. Goddard Award is given annually in recognition of exceptional achievement in optical or photonic instrumentation for aerospace, atmospheric science, or astronomy. The award is for the invention and development of a new technique, photonic instrumentation, instrument, or system. Honorarium $2,000.

Samuel Harvey Moseley, NASA Goddard Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, is the 2013 recipient of the George W. Goddard Award in recognition of his extraordinary inventions of superconducting imaging arrays for astronomy, ranging from submillimeter bolometers to energysensitive X-ray microcalorimeters, and even dark matter detectors, as well as microshutter arrays for the James Webb Space Telescope near IR spectrometer.

Previous Recipients of the George W. Goddard Award


2012 - William J. Borucki
2011 - James H. Churnside
2010 - Moustafa T. Chahine
2009 - Neil Gehrels
2008 - John Gille
2007 - Alan Title
2006 - Martin C. Weisskopf
2005 - John C. Mather
2003 - James B. Breckinridge
2001 - Rudolf A. Hanel
2000 - John A. Hackwell
1999 - Paul R. Yoder, Jr.
1998 - Robert Q. Fugate
1997 - Jacques E. Blamont
1996 - Marija S. Scholl
1994 - Richard B. Hall
1993 - Jerry E. Nelson
1992 - James D. Trolinger
1991 - Leo Beiser
1990 - James B. Odom
1989 - John W. Hardy
1987 - Morris Birnbaum
1986 - Louis J. Cutrona
1985 - Leon P. Van Speybroeck
1984 - Aden Baker Meinel
1983 - Milton Chang and John Matthews
1982 - Joseph B. Houston, Jr.
1981 - Robert R. Shannon
1980 - F. Dow Smith
1979 - Carl E. Duckett
1978 - General Lew Allen, Jr.
1977 - Roderic M. Scott
1976 - Walter J. Levison
1975 - Earle B. Brown
1974 - Lewis Larmore
1971 - Leon Kosofsky
1970 - Donald B. Milliken
1969 - Harry Davis
1968 - Richard W. Philbrick
1967 - Bruce Murray
1966 - Merton E. Davies
1965 - E. L. Taylor
1964 - Edwin M. Martz, Jr.
1963 - Amrom H. Katz
1962 - Eugene W. Elliott
1961 - General George W. Goddard

 

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