Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation

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. 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 are:

YearRecipientInventions
2002 James E. GunnCCDs in astronomy: WFPC on Hubble, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ...
2003 Frank J. LowIR detection by bolometer arrays
2004 Thomas G. PhillipsSub-millimetre and terahertz instrumentation
2005 Stephan ShectmanActive optics
2006 J. Roger AngelAdaptive optics for infra-red spectroscopy
2007 Harvey MoseleyMicroshutter arrays, X-ray microcalorimeter
2008 James R. HouckSpectrographs for infrared astronomy

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