Past IAS Member and Visitor Neta Bahcall has been announced as the 2024 winner of the American Astronomical Society's prestigious Henry Norris Russell Lectureship. Neta's receipt of this award makes her and her late husband John N. Bahcall, past Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, the first astronomy couple to each receive this honor.
By Avi Loeb, Member (1988–93, 2002–03) in the
School of Natural Sciences:
“Such examples are often used to support the notion that the
scientific method works and that the truth eventually prevails. But
these success stories reflect a selection...
Of the Hubble Space Telescope, John Norris Bahcall, former
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and colleagues wrote,
“What is at stake is not only a piece of stellar technology but our
commitment to the most fundamental human quest...
Neta Bahcall, Member
(1982–83) in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses the
forty-year effort of John
Bahcall, Richard Black Professor in the School from 1971 until
his death in 2005, to predict the rate of neutrinos from the Sun.
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