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Caltech Astronomy Graduate Alumni

Award Date, Name, Thesis titles, Advisor(s), and present whereabouts

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(Astronomy, Astronomy related Chemistry, GPS & Physics Alumni)

Award Date, Name, Thesis titles, Advisor(s), and present whereabouts

2006
KOVACS, Attila	(Phys) SHARC-2 350 micron observations of distant submillimeter-selected galaxies and techniques for the optimal analysis and observing of weak signals	Tom Phillips
PAN, Margaret Whei-Jie	Slices of theoretical astrophysics: planetary dynamics and relativistic explosions	Re'em Sari	Postdoc IAS Princeton
REDDY, Naveen Ananta	A Multi-Wavelength census of Star Formation at redshifts z~2	Chuck Steidel	Postdoc NOAO
BUNDY, Kevin	The Mass Assembly History of Field Galaxies	Richard Ellis	Reinhardt Fellowship, U Toronto
2005
KESDEN, Michael Henry	(Phys) To the horizon and beyond: weak lensing of the CMB and binary inspirals into horizonless objects	Mark Kamionkowski	Postdoc, CITA
SAND, David	On the distribution of dark matter in Galaxy Clusters	Richard Ellis	Chandra Fellowship, U of A.
METCHEV, Stanimir Angelov	An adaptive optics survey for sub-stellar companions around young solar analogs	Lynne Hillenbrand	Asst. Prof., SUNY, Stonybrook
ERB, Dawn	The properties of star-forming galaxies at z~2: kinematics, stellar populations and metallicities	Chuck Steidel	CfA Fellow
EISNER, Joshua A.	High angular resolution studies of the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks	Lynne Hillenbrand & Anneila Sargent	Asst. Prof, U. Arizona
FARMER, Alison Jane	Adventures in theoretical astrophysics	Peter Goldreich	Society Fellow, Harvard
JONES, William Claude	(Phys) A measurement of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background radiation	Andrew Lange
SIGURDSON, Kris	(Phys) Variations on the standard model of the universe	Marc Kamionkowski	Hubble Fellow, IAS Princeton
WEAVER, Susanna Leigh Widicus	(Chem) Rotational spectroscopy and observational astronomy of prebiotic molecules	Geoff Blake	U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
WEINBERG, Nevin Nachum	I. Ash ejection and exposure during radius expansion type I X-ray bursts, II. Stellar dynamics at the galactic center, III. Weak gravitational lensing by dark matter concentrations	Marc Kamionkowski	TAC Fellow, UC Berkeley
RATHORE, Yasser	(Phys) Resonant excitation of white dwarf oscillations in compact binaries	Roger Blandford
2004
BRODERICK, Avery Earl	(Phys) Radiative transfer in accreting environments	Roger Blandford	ITC Fellow, Harvard
BERGER, Edo	Cosmic Explosions: The Beasts and Their Lair	Shri Kulkarni	Asst. Prof., Harvard
HUNT, Matthew P.	Faint optically selected AGN at z=3	Chuck Steidel	Northrop Grumman
KAPLAN, David Lior Ariel	The diversity of neutron stars: nearby thermally emitting neutron stars and the compact central objects in supernova remnants	Shri Kulkarni	Pappalardo Fellow, MIT
SANTOS, Michael R.	Galaxy Formation near the Epoch of Reionization	M. Kamionkowski, & Richard Ellis	STscI
JACOBY, Bryan	Recycled Pulsars	Shri Kulkarni	NRC Research Associate, NRL
MAZIN, Benjamin A.	Microwave kinetic inductance detectors	Chris Martin & Jonas Zmuidzinas	SRL, Caltech
2003
BOUCHEZ, Antonin Henri	(GPS) Seasonal trends in Titan's atmosphere: Haze, Wind & Clouds	Mike Brown	Adaptive Optics Lead, COO, Caltech
CARTWRIGHT, John Kenneth	A Limit on the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation	Tony Readhead	Boston Consulting Group - Washington, DC
CHEN, Yanbei	(Phys) Topics of LIGO Physics: Quantum noise in advanced interferometers and template banks for compact-binary inspirals	Kip Thorne	Asst. Professor, Caltech
EDGINGTON, Samantha Faye	(Phys) A galaxy cluster survey using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect	Andrew Lange	City College of San Francisco
HARTL, Michael	(Phys) Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity	Sterl Phinney	Author and Entreprenuer
KESSLER, Jacqueline Elizabeth	(Chem) Gas and Dust Chemistry in Planet-Forming Disks	Mitchio Okumura	Spitzer Postdoc, U. Texas, Austin
LANE, Benjamin F.	(GPS) High Precision Infrared Stellar Interferometry	Shri Kulkarni	Pappalardo Fellow, MIT
O'SHAUGHNESSY, Richard William	(Phys) Topics in gravitational wave astronomy	Kip Thorne	Northwestern
SELMAN, Fernando Javier	The initial mass function and star-formation history in the 30 Doradus super-association	Nick Scoville	ESO. Staff Santiago, Chile
SHAPLEY, Alice Eve	Detailed Astrophysical Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies	Chuck Steidel	Assoc. Prof. UCLA
SIEVERS, Jonathan LeRoy	Data analysis of and results from observations of the cosmic microwave background with the Cosmic Background Imager	Tony Readhead	CITA
SIMCOE, Robert Andrew	Observations of intergalactic heavy-element enrichment in the early universe	Wal Sargent	Asst. Prof. MIT
UDOMPRASERT, Patricia Simcoe	H0 from Cosmic Background Imager observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in nearby clusters	Tony Readhead	Wilcox Fellow, Concord Academy
WANG, Huiqun (Helen)	(GPS) Global observations of Martian clouds with the Mars Orbiter Camera of the Mars Global Surveyor Spacecraft	Bruce Murray	Staff, GPS, Caltech
YOST, Sarah Anne	(Phys) Gamma-ray burst afterglows: constraining physical parameters and fireball model assumptions	Fiona Harrison	Research Fellow, U. Michigan
2002
ADELBERGER, Kurt L.	Star formation and Structure formation between redshifts one and four	Chuck Steidel	McKinsey & Co. Seattle
BLOOM, Joshua S.	Towards an Understanding of the Progenitors of gamma-Ray bursts	Shri Kulkarni	Asst. Prof. UC Berkeley
BURGASSER, Adam Jonathan	(Phys) The discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the definition of the T spectral Class	Mike Brown	Assoc. Professor, UCSD
CHANDLER, Adam M.	(Phys) Pulsar Searches: from radio to -rays	Tom Prince	OIR, CfA, Harvard
DYUDINA, Ulyana Anatolyevna	(Phys) Light scattering in the Clouds on Jupiter	Andy Ingersoll	GPS, Caltech
KERN, Brian	Optical Pulse-Phased Observations of Faint Pulsars with a Phase-Binning CCD camera	Chris Martin	JPL
MAO, Peter Hsih-Jen	(Phys) Hard X-ray observations of the extragalactic sky: the High Energy Focusing Telescope and the serendipitous extragalactic X-ray Source Identification Survey	Fiona Harrison	Earth & Space Science, UCLA
PHILHOUR, Byron Jacob	(Phys) Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background	Andrew Lange	St. Ignatius College Preparatory
RUNYAN, Marcus C.	(Phys) A search for galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect	Andrew Lange	Fermi Fellow, Kavli Institute, U. Chicago
VALLISNERI, Michele	(Phys) Modeling and detecting gravitational waves from compact stellar objects	Kip Thorne & Lee Lindblom	JPL
WARD, John Strawn	(Phys) Observations of Carbon Monoxide in the Starburst Galaxy M82 with a 690 GHz Wide Spectral Receiver	Jonas Zmuidzinas	JPL
WONG, Ah-San	(Phys) Photochemical Studies of Jupiter and Titan	Yuk L. Yung	Research Fellow, U. Michigan
2001
GAL, Roy R.	The Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey	George Djorgovski	UC Davis
SANDHU, Jagmit Singh	High Precision Dual Frequency Timing of Millisecond Pulsars	Shri Kulkarni & R.N. Manchester	staff, JPL
ZHANG, Hui	(GPS) Photochemistry in N2O and HNO4: A Window into the Global Biogeochemistry of Nitrogen	Paul Wennberg and Geoff Blake
QI, Chunhua "Charlie"	(GPS) Aperture Synthesis Studies of the Chemical Composition of Protoplanetary Disks and Comets	Geoff Blake	CfA, Harvard
BEHR, Bradford B.	A New Spin on Horizontal-Branch Stars: Anomolous Abundances and Rapid Rotation Rates	Jim McCarthy & Judy Cohen	U. Texas, Austin
2000
BAKER, Andrew Jordan	Molecular Gas in nearby Active Galactic Nuclei	Nick Scoville	Asst. Prof. Rutgers U.
CHIANG, Eugene	Circumstellar and Circumplanetary Disks	Peter Goldreich	UC Berkeley
CRILL, Brendan	(Phys) A measurement of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background with a long duration balloon-borne receiver	Andrew Lange	IPAC, Caltech
KUCHNER Marc J.	Exozodiacal Dust	Mike Brown	NASA Goddard
MURPHY, Thomas W. Jr.	Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: Power Sources and Ages Along the Merger Sequence	Tom Soifer	UCSD
1999
FASSNACHT, Christopher D.	Determining the distance scale with CLASS: Studies of two new gravitational lenses and a measurement of the Hubble Constant	Tony Readhead	UC Davis
GREGO, Laura	Galaxy cluster Gas fractions from Interferometric measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect	John Carlstrom	Staff Scientist, UCS
OPPENHEIMER, Benjamin R.	Direct Detection of Brown Dwarf Companions of Nearby Stars	Shri Kulkarni	Columbia/AMNH
Benford, Dominic J.	Broadband Submillimeter Instrumentation for the Detection of Distant Galaxies	Tom Phillips	Cosmic Origins Chief Scientist NASA
1998
BERNSTEIN, Rebecca A.	The HST/LCO measurement of the mean flux of the extragalactic background light (3000-8000A)	Wendy Freedman/Roger Blandford	Assoc. Professor, UCO/Lick Obs.
GIZIS, John E.	M subdwarfs and the population II luminosity function	Neil Reid	Assoc. Professor, U.Delaware
HOGG, David W.	(Phys.) On the evolution of field galaxies	Roger Blandford, Judy Cohen & Gerry Neugebauer	Asst. Prof. New York U.
LEITCH, Erik M.	A measurement of anisotropy in the microwave background on 7' to 22' scales	Tony Readhead	U. Chicago
LYUTIKOV, Maxim Y.	Pulsar radio emission mechanisms	Roger Blandford	Asst. Prof. Purdue U.
OGLE, Patrick M.	Polarization and structure of broad absorption line quasi-stellar objects	Marshall Cohen	Spitzer Science Center
PAHRE, Michael Andrew	Elliptical Galaxies: Structure, Stellar Content, and Evolution	George Djorgovski	CfA, Harvard
MAHAJAN, Sanjoy	Order of Magnitude Physics: A Textbook with applications to the Retinal Rod and to the density of Prime Numbers	Sterl Phinney	MRAO Cambridge
WEINBERGER, Alicia	(Phys) Speckle imaging of the nuclei of six Seyfert galaxies at 2.2 um and 1.6um	Gerry Neugebauer	Staff Member, DTM, CIW
WU, Yanqin	Excitation and Saturation of White Dwarf Pulsations	Peter Goldreich	U. Toronto
1997
AKESON, Rachel L.	Millimeter Interferometric Polarimetry of Magnetic Field Structure in Protostellar Condensations	John Carlstrom	NASA Exoplanet Science Institute
BRYANT, Peter M.	High-Resolution Observations of the Molecular Gas in Luminous Infrared Galaxies	Nick Scoville	U. Hawaii, NASA, IR
HUNTER, Todd R.	A submillimeter imaging survey of ultracompact HII regions	Tom Phillips	NRAO, Charlottesville
KNOP, Robert	(Phys)Spatially resolved infrared spectroscopy of Seyfert galaxies	B. Tom Soifer	Prof. Quest University, Canada
KOH, Danny Towsian	Continuous long term observations of accreting pulsars	Tom Prince
MILLS, Franklin Perry	(GPS) I. Observations and photochemical modeling of the Venus middle atmosphere. II. Thermal infrared spectroscopy of Europa and Callisto.	Y. L. Yung	SMA, SAO
1996
CHAKRABARTY, Deepto	Hard X-Ray Detection & Timing of Accretion-Powered Pulsars with BATSE	Tom Prince	MIT
HANSEN, Bradley M. S.	The Ages, Speeds and Offspring of Pulsars	Sterl Phinney	Assoc. Prof. UCLA
LARKIN, James	(Phys)Near infrared spectroscopy of LINER galaxies	B. Tom Soifer	Prof. UCLA
PUTNEY, Angela	Magnetic White Dwarf Stars	Marshall Cohen	Dynamics Technology Inc.
SMALL, Todd A.	The Norris Survey of Corona Borealis Supercluster	Wal Sargent	Finance company
VASISHT, Gautam	The Many faces of young Neutron stars	Shri Kulkarni	JPL
YAN, Lin	Binary Stars in Globular Clusters	Judy Cohen	Spitzer Science Center, IPAC, Caltech
1995
GROESBECK, Todd	The contribution of Molecular Line Emission to Broadband Flux Measurements at Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths	Tom Phillips	Trex Enterprises Corp.
RAUCH, Kevin Patrick	Black Holes and Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei: Microlensing, Caustics, and Collisional Stellar Dynamics	Roger Blandford	Research Staff. U. Maryland
McMULDROCH, Stuart	The Circumstellar Environment of FU Orionis Stars	Anneila Sargent	Blue Sky Imaging Ltd., UK.
RAY, Paul	High Sensitivity Searches for Radio Pulsars	Tom Prince	Astronomer, NRL
THOMPSON, David	Surveys for Primeval Galaxies	George Djorgovski	Support Astronomer, LBT
WEIR, Nicholas	Automated analysis of the Digitized Second Palomar Sky Survey: System design, Implementation and Initial Results	George Djorgovski
XU, Wenge "Bryan"	The first Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey	Tony Readhead	JPL
1994
FLANAGAN, _anna E.	(Phys) Topics in General Relativity: The Hoop conjecture, and theoretical aspects of Gravitational Wave detection.	Kip Thorne	Assoc. Prof. Cornell U.
HOROWITZ, Irwin Kenneth	Evolution of Emission line Galaxies	Maarten Schmidt	Idaho State U.
PERI, Michal Leah	Astroseismological Observations of Eta Cassiopeiae A with the Palomar East Arm Echelle Spectrograph	Ken Libbrecht	Peri Technologies
NAVARRO, Jose Archimedes	A Wide-bandwidth Pulsar Timing Machine	Shri Kulkarni	Norway.
ROTH, Joshua	Constraints upon the Cosmological Density Parameter from Tully-Fisher observations of IRAS Galaxies	Jeremy Mould	Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
	Submillimeter and infrared studies of mass lost by Asymptotic Giant Branch stars	Tom Phillips	SMA
1993
ANDERSON, Stuart Bruce	A Study of recycled Pulsars in Globular Clusters	Tom Prince	LIGO/SRL, Caltech
QUILLEN, Alice C.	The Kinematics of Molecular Gas & Dust in the Nearby Galaxies Centaurus A and M82	Sterl Phinney & Tom Phillips	U. Rochester
TINNEY, Christopher G.	The faintest stars	Jeremy Mould & Neill Reid	AAO
1992
CARICO, David	(Phys)Properties of infrared luminous galaxies	B. Tom Soifer	Senior Physicist, Planetquest
GHEZ, Andrea	(Phys) The multiplicity of T Tauri stars in the star forming regions Taurus-Auriga and Ophiucus-Scorpius: A 2.2 micrometer speckle imaging survey	Gerry Neugebauer	Prof. UCLA
JOHNSTON, Helen M.	Compact Objects in the Disk and Globular Clusters	Shri Kulkarni	AAO
PADGETT, Deborah Lynne	Photospheric Abundance Analysis of Low Mass Pre-Main Sequence Stars	Ann Boesgaard	Spitzer Science Center, IPAC, Caltech
van PUTTEN, Maurice H.P.M.	(ACM) MHD in Divergence form: A Computational Method for Astrophysical Flow	Sterl Phinney	Asst. Prof, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
ZUO, Lin	QSO absorption lines and the ionizing field at high redshifts	Sterl Phinney & Wal Sargent	Real Estate
1991
HAN, Mingsheng	The I-Band Tully-Fisher relation and large-scale motions in the Universe	Jeremy Mould	Avanti Corp, Fremont CA
PICARD, Alain	The Large Scale Structure of the Universe	Jeremy Mould
RAND, Richard	The Relationship between the Density Wave, Molecular Gas and Star Formation in M51	Shri Kulkarni	U. New Mexico
SIGUR_SSON, Steinn	Dynamics of Neutron Stars and Binaries in Globular Clusters	Sterl Phinney	Penn State U.
STAPELFELDT, Karl Roald	A multiwavelength observational investigation of Herbig-Haro objects and their exciting stars	Nick Scoville	JPL
1990
GROSSMAN, Arie William	Microwave imaging of Saturn's deep atmosphere and Rings	Dewey Muhleman	UC Berkeley
MILLER, M. Coleman	Radiation Transfer in very strong Magnetic Fields	Sterl Phinney	U. Maryland
MYERS, Steven T.	A search for Anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background on angular scales of 1 to 30 arcminutes	Tony Readhead	Staff Scientist, NRAO
WILSON, Christine Diana	Star formation and the Interstellar Medium in M33	Nick Scoville	Prof. McMaster U.
1989
BARSONY, Mary Anne	Outflows in High Mass Star-Forming Regions	Nick Scoville	San Francisco State U.
NAKAJIMA, Tadashi	Diffraction-Limited Imaging on the 200-inch Telescope	G. Neugebauer	NAOJ
STEIDEL, Charles C.	Spectroscopic observations of high redshift QSOs: galaxies and the intergalactic medium at early epochs	Wal Sargent	Lee A. DuBridge Prof. Astronomy, Caltech
ZHANG, Xiao-He	(Phys) Multiple moments in General Relativity and dynamical perturbations of Black-Hole Magnetospheres	Kip Thorne
1988
McCARTHY, James K.	Echelle Spectroscopy of the Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae	Jeremy Mould	Northrop Grumman & Adjunct Prof. Loyola Marymount U.
KUMAR, Pawan	Excitation and damping of solar P-modes	Peter Goldreich	Prof. U. Texas, Austin
MORRIS, Michael S.	(Phys) The R + _  R2 Cosmology	Kip Thorne
PORTER, Alain C.	Isophotometry of Brightest Elliptical Galaxies in Rich Clusters	J. B. Oke	NOAO staff astronomer, deceased, 1993
YURTSEVER, Ulvi	(Phys) Singularities and Horizons in the collisions of Gravitational Waves	Kip Thorne
WANG, Haimin	Magnetic fields and supergranulae velocity fields on the quiet Sun	Harold Zirin	New Jersey Institute of Technology
1987
CHEUNG, Kwok-Wai	An Acousto-Optical Correlation Spectrometer for Radio Astronomy	A. T. Moffet	Chinese U. of Hong Kong, Dept. Information Engineering
CHOU, Dean-Yi	Development and Evolution of Magnetic Fields in active regions on the Sun	Harold Zirin	National Tsing Hua U. Taiwan
EDELSON, Richard	Broadband properties of Active Galactic Nuclei	Maarten Schmidt & Alan Moffet	U. Iowa
FINN, Lee Samuel	(Phys) Relativistic stellar pulsations	Kip Thorne	Director, Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Penn State U.
LIND, Kevin Robert	Observations and gas dynamics of extragalactic radio jets	Marshall Cohen & Roger Blandford
1986
HOUGH, David Hans	Parsec-scale structure in the nuclei of double-lobed radio quasars	Tony Readhead	Trinity U. TX
RICH, R. Michael	Abundances & Kinematics of K giants in the Galactic Nuclear Bulge	Jeremy Mould	Research Astronomer, UCLA
1985
BIRETTA, John Anthony	Investigations of Radio Jets in M87, 3C273 and 3C345	Marshall Cohen	STScI
BLAKE, Geoffrey A.	(Chem) On the chemical composition of interstellar molecular clouds: a millimeter and submillimeter spectral line survey of OMV-1	Tom Phillips	Prof. GPS, Caltech
FILLMORE, James Arthur	A study on the formation and dynamics of Galaxies	Peter Goldreich
HERNQUIST, Lars	(ACM)Thermal and Magnetic properties of Neutron Stars	Roger Blandford	Prof. & Chair, CfA, Harvard
SAHAI, Raghvendra	Circumstellar Shells of Late-Type Stars - A Study at Millimeter and Infrared Wavelengths	Al Wootten	JPL
SCHUMAKER, Bonny L.	(Phys) Theoretical investigations in nonlinear quantum optics, theory of measurement and pulsations of general relativistic models of neutron stars.	Kip Thorne	JPL
SUEN, Wai-Mo	(Phys) Dynamical Electromagnetic fields near Black Holes and multiple moments of stationary, general relativistic systems	Kip Thorne	Prof. Washington U. Saint Louis
1984
FILIPPENKO, Alexei Vladimir	Physical conditions in Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei	Wal Sargent	Prof. UC Berkeley
LICHTEN, Stephen Morris	Turbulence and mass motion in Galactic molecular clouds	Peter Wannier	JPL
SAHA, Abhijit	A Survey of halo RR Lyrae Stars>	Bev Oke	NOAO, Tucson
1983
BERRIMAN, Graham B.	Visible and Infrared Studies of Cataclysmic Variable Stars	Eric Persson	IPAC, Caltech
HORNE, Keith Douglas	Eclipse mapping of accretion disks in cataclysmic binaries	J. Bev Oke	Prof. U. St. Andrews, Scotland
JEWITT, David C.	(GPS) I. Physical studies of distant comets. II. Morphologies of planetary nebulae.	James Westphal	Prof. IfA, U. Hawai`i
MacDONALD, Douglas Alan	(Phys) Black-Hole Electrodynamics	Kip Thorne
MALKAN, Matthew A.		Wal Sargent	Prof. UCLA
PIER, Jeffrey Ross	A Study of the A - and B - Type Stars in the Southern Galactic Halo	George Preston	Staff, US Naval Obs. Flagstaff, AZ
PORCO, Carolyn C.	(GPS) Voyager observations of Saturn's Rings. I. The eccentric rings at 1.29, 1.45, 1.95 and 2.27 Rs. II. The periodic variation of spokes.	Peter Goldreich	Southwest Research Institute (JPL/Cassini)
REDMOUNT, Ian H.	(Phys) Topics in Black-Hole Physics: Geometric constraints on non-collapsing, gravitating systems and tidal distortions of a Schwarzschild Black Hole	Kip Thorne	Assoc. Prof., Saint Luis U.
SELLGREN, Kristen	Near Infrared Studies of Reflection Nebulae	B.T. Soifer & G. Neugebauer	Prof. Ohio State U.
SIMON, Richard	Nuclear Structure of Quasars at 329 MHz	Tony Readhead	NRAO
1982
ENNIS, David	(Phys)One millimeter continuum observations of Quasars	G. Neugebauer & M. Werner	Ohio Supercomputer Center
FLAMMANG, Richard Alan	(Phys) Stationary spherical optically thick accretion into Black Holes	Kip Thorne	deceased
G_RSEL, Yekta	(Phys) Stability of spherically symmetric, charged Black Holes and multiple moments for stationary systems	Kip Thorne	JPL
NADEAU, Daniel	(Phys)	Gerry Neugebauer	Prof. U. Montreal
REDMAN, Russell Ormond	The Orientation and Sizes of Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy	Peter Wannier	DAO
SCHNEIDER, Donald P.	CCD Observations of Clusters of Galaxies	Jim Gunn	Prof. Penn State U.
1981
LINFIELD, Roger Paul	Studies of compact extragalactic radio sources	Marshall Cohen & Roger Blandford	All Aerospace Tech. Corp.
RABIN, Douglas Mark	Studies of Stellar Populations: Star Clusters in M31, the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds	Leonard Searle & Judy Cohen	NASA/GSFC
SEBOK, William L.	Use of an Automated Photographic Object Detection System to Analyse the Effect of Magnitude on the Angular Correlation Function of Galaxies	Jim Gunn	CSS, U. Maryland
WADE, Richard Alan	Spectroscopy and Spectrophotometry of Cataclysmic variable stars	J. B. Oke	Assoc. Prof. Penn State U.
YEE, Howard Kwong Chew	Optical Spectral properties of active galactic nuclei and quasars	J. B. Oke	Prof. U. Toronto
1980
HOESSEL, John Greg	The photometric properties of brightest cluster galaxies	James Gunn	Astronomy Chair, U. Wisconsin
KENT, Stephen Matthew	Interaction between galaxies and a hot medium in rich clusters	Wal Sargent	Prof. Fermilab, U. Chicago, Head: Experimental Astrophysics Group
1979
CAVES, Carlton Morris	(Phys) Theoretical investigations of experimental gravitation	Kip Thorne	U. New Mexico
C_RDOVA, France A.	(Phys) X-ray observations of dwarf novae	Gordon Garmire	President, Purdue U.
LaBONTE, Barry James	Studies of chromospheric activity observed in H_  and D3	Hal Zirin	Prof. U. Hawaii, deceased 2005
NICHOLSON, Phillip David	(GPS) 1. Tidal synchronization of the rotation of early main sequence stars in close binaries 2. The rings of Uranus: results of the 1978 April 10 occulation, 3. On the resonance theory of the rings of Uranus.	Peter Goldreich	Prof. Cornell U.
ROMNEY, Jonathan Daniel MacLeish	Fine - Scale Structure of the Neutral Hydrogen Absorption in NGC1275	Marshall Cohen	NRAO
YOUNG, Peter John	Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei	Wal Sargent	Asst. Prof. Caltech, deceased 1981
ZIMMERMAN, Mark Edward	(Phys) Studies on Gravitational Waves and Stars with Neutron Cores	Kip Thorne
1978
BECKWITH, Steven Van Walter	(Phys) Observations of interstellar molecular hydrogen emission	Gerry Neugebauer	Vice President for Sciences, U. California
ELIAS, Jonathan H.	Infrared studies of two dark clouds	Gerry Neugebauer	NOAO
GATLEY, Ian	(Phys)	Gerry Neugebauer	Dean College of Science, Rochester Inst. Tech.
SARGENT, Anneila Isabel	Molecular Clouds and Star Formation	Peter Goldreich	Benjamin Rosen Prof. Astronomy, COO, & Director OVRO
SCHLOERB, Frederic Peter	Radio Interferometric Investigations of Saturn's Rings at 3.71- and 1.30-cm Wavelengths	Duane Muhleman	U. Mass. Amherst
1977
ALCOCK, Charles	I. Small angle scattering of radiation. II. Molecular emission lines around evolved stars	Peter Goldreich	Director, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
GREEN, Richard Frederick	A complete sample of White Dwarfs, hot Subdwarfs, and Quasars	Maarten Schmidt	Director, LBT
HUCHRA, John Peter	The nature of Markarian Galaxies and studies of star formation in blue galaxies	Wal Sargent	Robert O. & Holly Thomis Doyle Prof. CfA, Harvard
KOVACS, Sandor Janos Jr.	(Phys) The generation of Gravitational Waves	Kip Thorne	Medical School
MOSHER, James Marshall	The magnetic history of solar active regions	Robert Leighton
1976
BAGNUOLO, William G. Jr.	The Stellar Composition and Evolution of Irregular & Other Late-Type Galaxies	Wal Sargent	Assoc. Prof. CHARA, Georgia State U.
HICKSON, Paul	The Structure of Clusters of Galaxies and the angular size-redshift test	James Gunn	Prof. UBC, Canada
KORMENDY, John	Brightness distributions in compact and normal galaxies	Wal Sargent	Prof. U. Texas, Austin
MALIN, Michael C.	(GPS) Comparison of Volcanic Features of Elysium (Mars) and Tibesti (Earth). Age of Martian channels. Nature and origin of intercrater plains on Mars	Bruce C. Murray	Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego
MELNICK, Jorge	The structure of giant extragalactic HII regions	Guido M_nch	ESO Staff, Santiago, Chile
PAGE, Don Nelson	(Phys) Accretion into and Emission from Black Holes	Kip Thorne	Prof. U. Utah
PIGG, Jay Cee Jr	A Limit of the inhomogeneity of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation at an Angular Scale of 1.25 ARCMIN	Alan T. Moffet
TARBELL, Theodore Dean	Semiconvection in Halo stars and the Primordial Helium abundance	William A. Fowler	Lockheed Martin, Solar & Astrophysics Lab
TURNER, Edwin Lewis	Binary galaxies and groups of galaxies	Wal Sargent	Prof. Princeton, Dir. Apache Point Observatory
TURNROSE, Barry Edmund	The stellar content of the nuclear regions of Sc galaxies	J. B. Oke	NASA/CSC
WILLIAMS, Theodore Burton	Stellar populations and velocity dispersions of Ten nearby galaxies	J. L. Greenstein	Prof. Rutgers U.
WILLNER, Steven Paul	Compact infrared sources: NGC 7538 and the Galactic Center	E. E. Becklin & G. Neugebauer	CfA, Harvard
1975
ORTON, Glenn Scott	1. Spatially Resolved Absolute Spectral Reflectivity of Jupiter: 3390 - 8400 _ 2. The Jovian Thermal Structure from Pioneer 10 Infrared Radiometer Data 3. Observations and Analysis of 8 - 14 Micron Thermal Structure and Cloud Properties	Andrew P. Ingersol	JPL
REID, Mark Jonathan	The Structure of Hydroxyl Masers and Circumstellar Envelopes of Long Period Variable Stars	Duane Muhleman	SAO, CfA, Harvard
SCHECHTER, Paul	The Luminosity Function for Galaxies and the Clustering of Galaxies	J. E. Gunn	William A. M. Burden Prof. MIT
1974
BIEGING, John Harold	Aperture Synthesis Observations of OH Absorption in the Galactic Center	Alan Moffet	Prof. U. Arizona
KIRSHNER, Robert P.	Spectrophotometry of Supernovae and their Remnants	J. B. Oke	Clowes Prof. CfA, Harvard
KWONG, Wah Chu	HI Observations of Dust Clouds	D. H. Rogstad
LEE, David Li	(Phys) Frameworks for analyzing and testing theories of Gravity	Kip Thorne
LIGHTMAN, Alan Paige	(Phys) I. Time-dependent accretion disks around compact objects. II. Theoretical frameworks for analyzing and testing gravitational theories.	Kip Thorne	Prof. Physics & Hum. MIT, Dept. Humanities
OEMLER, Augustus Jr	The Systematic Properties of Clusters of Galaxies	James Gunn	OCIW
SHAFFER, David Bruce	The Structure of Compact Radio Sources at 10.7 GHz	Marshall Cohen	President, Radiometrics Inc.
SHECTMAN, Stephen Alan	Clusters of Galaxies and the Cosmic Light	James Gunn	Staff. OCIW
VEEDER, Glenn J. Jr.	Properties and Luminosities of M type dwarfs from Infrared Photometry	J. L. Greenstein	JPL
1973
BROWN, James William	A Satellite measurement of Cosmic-Ray Abundances and Spectra in the Charge Range 2 d" Z d" 10	Edward C. Stone
GREISEN, Eric Winslow	Aperture synthesis of interstellar neutral hydrogen in absorption	Marshall Cohen	NRAO
HARVEY, Paul	(Phys)	Gerry Neugebauer	Prof. U. Texas
PURCELL, George H. Jr	The structure of Compact Radio Sources at 606 MHz	Marshall Cohen	JPL
SHIELDS, Gregory Alan	Ionization Structure and Emission Line Intensities of Seyfert Galaxy Nuclei	J. B. Oke	Blumberg Professor, U. Texas Austin
TEUKOLSKY, Saul Arno	(Phys) Perturbations of a rotating Black-Hole	Kip Thorne	Hans Bethe Prof. Phys. & Astron., Cornell U.
WRIGHT, William Edwin	Polarization observations of 3C radio sources and Galactic Faraday rotation	G. A. Seielstad
1972
ADELMAN, Saul Joseph	A Study of Twenty-one Sharp-Lined Non-Variable Cool Peculiar A Stars	George Preston	Prof. The Citadel, SC
CHRISTENSEN, Clark G.	The Synthesis of Composite Spectra: A Study of 4 Globular Clusters of the Galaxy, 5 Globular Clusters of M31, and the nucleus of NGC 205	Wal Sargent & J. B. Oke	Assoc. Prof. BYU
DYKLA, John Joseph	(Phys) Conserved Quantities and the Formation of Black Holes in the Brans-Dicke Theory of Gravitation	Kip Thorne
NI, Wei-Tou	(Phys) Metric theories of Gravity and their astrophysical implications	Kip Thorne	Prof. National Tsing Hua University, retd.
PERSSON, Eric S.	Interpretation of the neutral Helium triplet spectrum in Planetary Nebulae	Guido M_nch	Staff Astronomer, OCIW
PRESS, William Henry	(Phys) Applications of Black-Hole perturbation techniques	Kip Thorne	Texas
SHOSTAK, Gerson Seth	Aperture Synthesis Observations of Neutral Hydrogen in Three Galaxies	G. J. Stanley	Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
SMITHSON, Robert Carroll	A Videomagnetograph of Diffusion of Solar Magnetic Fields in Weak Plage regions	Phillip H. Roberts	Applied Analytics
1971
COHEN, Judith G.	The Lithium Isotope ratio in F and G field stars	Guido M_nch	Kate Van Nuys Page Prof. Astronomy, Caltech
ELACHI, Charles	(Aero) Electromagnetic wave propagation and source radiation in space-time periodic media	Charles Papas	Director, JPL
FROGEL, Jay Albert	Infrared spectra of Late-type Stars	Guido M_nch	AURA Vice President for Science
OINAS, Valdar	Analysis of Normal and Strong-Lined K-Type Dwarf and Giant Stars	Jesse Greenstein	NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
PRICE, Richard H.	(Phys) Nonspherical Perturbations of Relativistic Gravitational Collapse	Kip Thorne
SCHUTZ, Bernard Frederick	(Phys) Relativistic velocity-potential hydrodynamics & stellar stability	Kip Thorne	Director, Max Planck Institut f_r Gravitationsphysik
SHIPMAN, Henry Longfellow	White Dwarfs</b	J. B. Oke	Prof. U. Delaware
WEISTROP, Donna E.	Characteristics of Disk and Halo populations derived from photographic photometry	Maarten Schmidt	Prof. UNLV
WILL, Clifford Martin	(Phys) Theoretical frameworks for testing Relativistic Gravity: The Parametrized Post-Newtonian Formalism	Kip Thorne	Prof. U. Washington
YIP, Ka Bing Winson	Synthesis of the polarization properties of Cygnus A at 8300 and 9600 MHz	G. A. Seielstad
1970
DEFOUW, Richard John	Thermal instability and the convective stability of stellar chromospheres	Peter Goldreich
KEELEY, Douglas Allan	Static and dynamical models of long-period variable stars	R. F. Christy	Software Co, in Bay Area
MICHAUD, Georges J.	I. Diffusion processes in A-pec stars, II. Nucleosynthesis in Si burning.	W. Fowler & Wal Sargent	U. de Montr_al
O'CONNELL Robert West	The Stellar Content of M82	Wal Sargent & J. B. Oke	J. D. Hamilton Professor, U. Virginia
OSMER Patrick Stewart	The Atmosphere of the F Supergiants	Wal Sargent	Astronomy Chair, and Graduate Dean, Ohio State U.
PETERSON, Arsine Victoria	A Spectroscopic Investigation of Four O-Type Subdwarfs	G. M_nch & J. L. Greenstein	ANU, Computer Science
ROBERTS, Phillip Howard Jr	Velocity Fields in Magnetically Disturbed Regions of the H_  Chromosphere	R. B. Leighton
SRAMEK, Richard	The brightness distribution of core-halo radio sources	Alan Moffet	ALMA
WEBBER, John C.	The molecular spectrum of Sunspots	Harold Zirin	NRAO
1969
ANDERSON, Kurt S.	A Spectrophotometric Study of Seyfect Nuclei	J.B. Oke	Prof. New Mexico State U.
BURKE, William Lionel	(Phys) The coupling of gravitational radiation to nonrelativistic sources	Kip Thorne	Prof. UC Santa Cruz
HUGHES, Evan Eugene Jr.	The luminosities and the spatial distribution of stars detected on a two micron sky survey	Gerry Neugebauer
IPSER, James Reid	(Phys) The stability of relativistic, spherically symmetric star clusters	Kip Thorne	Prof. U. Florida
WEILER, Kurt Walter	Synthesis of the Polarization properties of 3C10 and 3C58 at 1420 and 2880 MHz	G. A. Seielstad	NRL
1968
ANDERSON, Christopher Marlowe	The Interstellar Extinction of Stars in H II Regions	Guido M_nch & J. B. Oke	Prof. U. Wisconsin
BECKLIN, Eric E.	Infrared Observations of the Galactic Center	Gerry Neugebauer	Prof. UCLA; SOFIA Director
JACOBS, Kenneth Charles	(Phys) Bianchi Type I Cosmological Models	Kip Thorne
KEIFFER, Hugh H.	Near infrared spectral reflectance of simulated Martian frosts	Bruce Murray	USGS, Flagstaff
KINNERSLEY, William Morris	(Phys) Type D Gravitational Fields	Kip Thorne & Jon Matthews
LARSON, Richard Bondo	Dynamics of a collapsing protostar	Guido M_nch	Prof. Yale
PETERSON, Bruce Alrick	A Study of Absorption and Reddening Using Absolute Magnitudes and Colors of Galaxies	Maarten Schmidt	Prof. ANU, Mt. Stromlo(ret.)
PURCELL, George H. Jr.	The structure of compact radio sources at 606 MHz	Marshall Cohen	JPL
SCARGLE, Jeffrey D.	Activity in the Crab Nebula	Guido M_nch	NASA Ames
TRIMBLE, Virginia Louise	Motions and structure of the filamentary envelope of the Crab Nebula	Guido M_nch	Prof. UC Irvine
1967
FOMALONT, Edward B.	The East-West structure of Radio Sources at 1425 MHz	Alan Moffet	NRAO
ROGSTAD, David Herbert	(Phys) Rotation and Masses of Galaxies as Determined by Single Spacing Interferometry of 21 cm Hydrogen Emission	J. B. Whiteoak	JPL retd.
1966
CASTOR, John	Atmospheric Dynamics in a model RR Lyrae Star	Robert Christy	LLNL
CHANDRA, Subhash	A Study of Spectroscopic & Kinematic Characteristics of Peculiar A-type stars	Deutsch
GUNN, James E.	A mathematical framework for discussing the statistical distribution of Galaxies in Space, and its cosmological implications	Guido M_nch & J. L. Greenstein	Higgins Prof. Princeton
TITLE, Alan Morton	A study of velocity fields in the H_  chromosphere by means of time-lapse Doppler movies	R. B. Leighton	Lockheed Martin, Solar & Astrophysics Lab
WOLF, Richard Alan	1. Rates of nuclear reactions in White Dwarf stars, 2. The cooling of Neutron stars	John Bahcall	Prof. Emeritus, Rice U.
1965
BARDEEN, James Maxwell	(Phys) Stability and dynamics of spherically symetric masses in general relativity	W. A. Fowler & R. P. Feynman	Professor, U. Washington
BERGE, Glenn Leroy	An interferometric study of Jupiter's decimeter radio emission	G. J. Stanley	Caltech, GPS. retd.
DIVINE, Theodore Neil	Structure and Evolution of model Helium stars	J. B. Oke	Staff, JPL. deceased
KAYSER, Susan Elizabeth	Photometry of the nearby Irregular Galaxy, NHC 6822		NSF, Gemini Board (retd)
SHEELEY, Neil Rolfson	(Phys) Measurements of Solar Magnetic Fields	R. B. Leighton	NRL
TRAFTON, Laurence Munro	A Study of the Energy Balance in the Atmospheres of the Major Planets	Guido M_nch	McDonald Observatory, U. Texas
1964
ARPIGNY, Claude	A study of molecular and physical processes in comets	Jesse Greenstein	U. de Li_ge, Institut d'Astrophysique
CLARK, Barry Gillespie	The 21-cm Hydrogen Line in Absorption		NRAO
MENDEZ, Manuel E.	The Spectrophotometry of the Orion Nebula	Guideo M_nch	Mexican Govt.
MIHALAS, Dimitri	Model Atmosphere Studies of Early Type Stars	J. Beverly Oke	Staff, Los Alomos
NORTON, Robert Henry	HeH+ in Model Stellar Atmospheres	Guido M_nch
1963
KELLERMAN, Kenneth Irwin	(Phys) The spectra of Galactic and Extragalactic radio sources	G. J. Stanley	NRAO
NOYES, Robert Wilson	Observations of Oscillatory Motions in the Solar Atmosphere	Robert Leighton	Prof. Emeritus, Harvard, CfA
PARKER Robert Allan Ridley	The Physical Conditions Pertaining to some Possible Supernova Remnants	Guido M_nch	Astronaut, Director Nasa Management Office, JPL (Retd.)
SEIELSTAD, George Andrew	Measurements of the Linear Polarization of Radio Sources at Decimeter Wavelengths	G. J. Stanley	Associate Dean of Research, Odegard School, U. North Dakota
SIMON, George Warren	Correlations Between Large-Scale Solar Phospheric and Chromospheric Motions, Ca II (K) Emission, and Magnetic Fields	R. B. Leighton	NASA astronaut (retd).
1962
READ, Richard Bradley	Accurate Measurement of the Declinations of Radio Sources	John Bolton	deceased
WILDEY, Robert LeRoy	The stellar content of the Perseus Galactic Arm in the region of h + chi Persei	H. C. Arp & A. R. Sandage	USGS & Prof. Northern Arizona U., deceased 1998
WILSON, Robert Woodrow	(Phys) Observations of the Galactic Plane at 960 mc/sec	J. G. Bolton & Maarten Schmidt	SMA/SAO, CfA Harvard
1961
HARRIS, Daniel E.	The continuous spectra of radio sources with particular reference to non-thermal Galactic sources	J. G. Bolton & G. J. Stanley	HEA, CfA, Harvard
MOFFET, Alan Theodore	Interferometric measurements of brightness distributions in discrete radio sources	Robert Leighton	deceased
WILSON, Kenneth Geddes	(Phys) An Investigation of the Low Equation and the Chew-Mandelstam equations	Murray Gell-Mann	Hazel C. Youngberg Prof. Ohio State U.
1960
NEUGEBAUER, Gerald	(Phys)	R. Walker	Robert Andrews Millikan Prof. Caltech & Director of Observatories (retd)
1959
BONSACK, Walter Karl	The Abundance of Lithium in the Atmospheres of Cool Stars	Jesse Greenstein	U. Hawaii (Retd)
MELBOURNE, William Geary	Line blanketing effects on middle-type main-sequence and sub-dwarf stars	Arthur Code	JPL
1958
TIFFT, William Grant	Multicolor photoelectric photometry of bright extragalactic systems	Arthur D. Code	Emeritus Prof. U. Arizona
WALLERSTEIN, George	Spectra of population II Cepheid variable stars	J. Greenstein	Prof. Emeritus, U. Washington
1957
ABELL, George Ogden	The distribution of Rich Clusters of Galaxies	Donald Osterbrock	Prof. UCLA, deceased, 1983
COOK, Charles William	(Phys) Alpha-particles from Boron 12: the astrophysical significance	Thomas Lauritsen
1956
Mathis, John Samuel	The abundance of helium relative to hydrogen in the Orion Nebula	Donald Osterbrock	Prof. Emeritus, U. Wisconsin
1955
STEWART, John Charles	A Quantitative Analysis of the Atmospheres of Three Peculiar Low_Luminosity B stars	Guido M_nch
1954
PARKER, James Mervin	Profiles and Wavelength of Spectrum Lines in the Solar Chromosphere	Seth B. Nicholson
1953
ARP, Halton C.	Variable Stars With Periods Greater Than One Day in Globular Clusters	Walter Baade	Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics
SAINT-AMAND, Pierre	(GPS) A possible relation between the night Airglow and the Ionosphere
SANDAGE, Alan	A Study of the Globular Cluster M3	Walter Baade	Astronomer Emeritus, OCIW
1952
ABT, Helmut Arthur	An Analysis of the Variable Star, W Virginis	Jesse Greenstein	Staff Astronomer. Emeritus, NOAO
YOUNG, Richard Davidson	The R-F thermal radiation from the Sun	P. S. Epstein
1951
PARKER, Eugene Newman	(Phys) The interstellar dust and gas structures	H. P. Robertson	S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Srvc. Prof. Emeritus, U. Chicago
1950
BAUM, William Alvin	Attenuation of Ultraviolet Light by the Lower Atmosphere	W. R. Smythe	Prof.Emeritus, U. Washington Deceased, 2012
GLASER, Donald Arthur	(Phys) The momentum distribution of charged Cosmic Ray particles near Sea level	C. D. Anderson	Prof. Glaser Lab, UC Berkeley
HILL, Armin John	Relative f-values of selected lines in the absorption spectrum of Chromium I	R. B. King	Dean College of Engineering & Technology, Brigham Young U. (retd), deceased, 1988
O'REILLY, James Donald	A Study of the Physical and Chemical Composition of Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Models of the Sun	R. F. Christy
1948
COWAN, Eugene Woodville	(Phys) Cloud-chamber observations of Cosmic Rays at High Altitude	Carl D. Anderson
FLETCHER, James C.	(Phys) Cloud-chamber observations of Cosmic Rays	Carl D. Anderson
1947
LEIGHTON, Robert B.	The vibrational spectrum of a mon-atomic, face-centered cubic crystal lattice	William V. Houston	Valentine Prof. Physics, Emeritus, deceased, 1997
WILSON, Albert George	(Math) Axially symmetric thermal stresses in a semi-infinite solid		POSS Astronomer, Dir. Lowell Obs. Retd.
1943
BLITZER, Leon	Factors influencing the accuracy of Rockets	Ira S. Bowen	Emeritus Prof. UA, deceased, 2004
1939
OPPENHEIMER, Frank	(Phys) Beta ray spectra	Charles Lauritsen	Exploratorium founder, deceased 1985
TOWNES, Charles H.	(Phys) Concentration of the heavy isotope of Carbon and measurement of its nuclear spin	W. R. Smythe	Prof. Emeritus, UC Berkeley
1936
FOWLER, William Alfred	(Phys) Radioactive elements of a low Atomic number	Charles Lauritsen	Emeritus Caltech Institute Prof. Physics, deceased, 1995
PICKERING, Sir William H.	(Phys) A Geiger counter study of the Cosmic Radiations		JPL Director 1954-76, deceased, 2004
1930
ANDERSON, Carl David	(Phys) Space-distribution of X-ray photons ejected from the K and L atomic energy-levels	R. A. Millikan	Emeritus Prof. Physics, deceased, 1991
1929
LAURITSEN, Charles Christian	(Phys) Electron emission from metals in intense electron fields	R. A. Millikan	deceased
MUSKAT, M. Morris	(Phys) The continuous spectra of Hydrogen-like Atoms	Paul S. Epstein	deceased
1927
LANGER, Rudolph M.	(Phys) The Hydrogen Atom	R. A. Millikan
1926
BOWEN, Ira Sprague	(Phys) The ratio of Heat Losses by Conduction and Evaporation from any Water Surface		MWPO Director 1948-64, deceased, 1973
1925
LORENZ, Edward J.	(Phys) The so-called positive photo-electric emission (inverse effect) and the reality of the sub-electron
1924
OTIS, Russell Morley	(Phys) The source of the penetrating radiation found in the earth's atmosphere	R. A. Millikan