Date: 15 Aug 2006 09:02:17
From: INBOX ASTRONOMY: NEWS ALERT
Subject: STSCI ASTROPHYSICIST SHARES 2006 GRUBER COSMOLOGY PRIZE (STScI-PR06-40)
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Cheryl Gundy/Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
(Phone: 410-338-4707/410-338-4514; E-mail: gundy@stsci.edu/villard@stsci.edu)
Lisa DeNike
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
(Phone: 443-287-9960; E-mail: lde@jhu.edu)
PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR06-40
STSCI ASTROPHYSICIST SHARES 2006 GRUBER COSMOLOGY PRIZE
Astrophysicist Michael G. Hauser (Space Telescope Science Institute
deputy director and adjunct professor in the Department of Physics
and Astronomy of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.) is a
member of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) science team sharing
the Peter Gruber Foundation's 2006 Cosmology Prize. The prize's gold
medal and $250,000 cash prize was presented to team leader John Mather
of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the COBE science working
group, representing the large project team, on August 15 at the
General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in
Prague, Czech Republic. The COBE satellite was launched in 1989 to
measure the early universe's diffuse infrared and microwave radiation.
The COBE science team was honored by the foundation for the satellite's
multiple accomplishments.
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http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/40
http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news
http://www.petergruberfoundation.org
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