Dr. Margaret J Geller to receive Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
MAR 16, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.4.1380
The American Astronomical Society’s most prestigious award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, will be presented to Dr. Margaret J. Geller (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) at the 2010 summer meeting in Miami.
Margaret will be honored “for a lifetime of work on the distribution and clustering of galaxies in the universe and for her notable success in describing this work to the public.”
The Russell Lectureship was first awarded in 1946. The first woman to win the award was Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin in 1976. She was followed by Margaret Burbidge (1984), Vera Rubin (1994), and now Margaret Geller (2010). For the full list, please see:
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