Astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou wins 2012 Dannie Heineman prize

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are pleased to announce that renowned astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2012 recipient of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, which is given annually to recognize outstanding work in the field. The prize was presented at the American Astronomical Society’s 221st Meeting, January 2013, in Long Beach, Calif., at which Kouveliotou gave a plenary lecture. ‘I am very grateful and honored to be recognized by the community with this very important award,’ said Kouveliotou. ‘I am also very pleased to see the recognition of building collaborations, which I consider to be an indispensable tool in scientific research today.’ Kouveliotou, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been the principal investigator on numerous research projects in the United States and Europe, and is the founding member of multiple scientific collaborations worldwide. Before joining NASA in 2004, she directed the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Astronomy Program in Huntsville. She also served as deputy director of the Institute for Space Physics, Astronomy and Education, a joint research venture of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA, and USRA.