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 Source: American Astronomical Society
Year Recipient Inventions 2002 James E. Gunn CCDs in astronomy: WFPC on Hubble, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ... 2003 Frank J. Low IR detection by bolometer arrays 2004 Thomas G. Phillips Sub-millimetre and terahertz instrumentation 2005 Stephen Shectman Active optics 2006 Roger Angel Adaptive optics for infra-red spectroscopy 2007 Harvey Moseley Microshutter arrays, X-ray microcalorimeter 2008 James R. Houck Spectrographs for infrared astronomy 2009 Peter Serlemitsos X-ray detector and telescope designs 2010 Donald N. B. Hall Low noise detectors for observational infrared astronomy 2011 Edward S. Cheng Several key instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope 2012 Thijs de Graauw Short Wavelength Spectrometer on ISO and the Heterodyne Instrument For the Infrared on Herschel 2013 Keith Matthews Infrared astronomical instrumentation 2014 Sander Weinreb Digital auto-correlation spectrometers and cryogenic low-noise amplifiers and mixers 2015 Claire E. Max Adaptive optics with sodium laser guide stars 2016 James J. (Jamie) Bock Low noise “spider web” bolometers 2017 Ian S. McLean Infrared sensor arrays 2018 Rainer Weiss Interferometric gravitational wave detector 2019 John D. Monnier 2020 Oswald O. Siegmund 2021 2022 Michael Lesser 2022 Peter Wizinowich 2023 Shouleh Nikzad 2024 Paul Goldsmith 2025 James Green 2026 Constance Rockosi
See also
List of astronomy awards
References
External link Joseph Weber Award