Kepler Mission Leaders to Receive Inaugural Lancelot Berkeley Prize
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Borucki and Koch (rhymes with "Bach") work as principal investigator and deputy principal investigator, respectively, of the Kepler space mission, which-- in the words of the prize committee's citation-- "is discovering new exoplanets while making major advancements in the search for terrestrial planets around other stars." The 2 researchers will certainly share $ 8,000 in prize cash and have their costs covered for travel to the upcoming 217th AAS meeting in Seattle, Washington, where they will jointly present the Lancelot Berkeley Prize Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. This prestigious brand-new AAS prize was set up in 2010 by the New York Community Trust, which administers the estate of Lancelot M. Berkeley, a New York attorney and astronomy enthusiast. The Lancelot Berkeley Prize will certainly be awarded every year for highly meritorious work in advancing the science of astronomy released in a peer-reviewed journal during the previous year.
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The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is pleased to announce that the first Lancelot M. Berkeley - New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy is being awarded to William J. Borucki and David G. Koch of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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