Edward van den Heuvel Awarded Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize

Edward van den Heuvel, Visitor (1974) in the School of Natural Sciences, has been awarded, with Alexander V. Tutukov and Lev R. Yungelson, the 2018 Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize.

The prize, which comes with a monetary award of about $300,000, is awarded by the Republic of Armenia every two years for significant contributions in astronomy and astrophysics. The 2018 honorees are recognized for their "fundamental contributions to the understanding of the evolution of massive close binary stars, especially the formation of relativistic objects in them, of X-ray binaries, and sources of outbursts of gravitational waves and gamma-ray radiation."

Van den Heuvel worked on this subject while at IAS, collaborating with Brian P. Flannery, then a Member in the School, on research into the Hulse-Taylor binary.

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