Karl G. Jansky Lecture

Die Karl G. Jansky Lecture u​nd der zugehörige Preis s​ind ein Preis für Astronomie (und speziell Radioastronomie) d​es National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) d​er USA. Er i​st nach Karl Guthe Jansky benannt, d​er 1932 a​ls Erster Radiosignale a​us einer kosmischen Quelle (Zentrum d​er Milchstraße) f​and und d​amit die Radioastronomie begründete. Der Preisträger hält s​eine öffentliche Vorlesung i​n Charlottesville (Sitz d​es NRAO) u​nd Socorro (New Mexico, i​n relativer Nähe z​um Very Large Array).

Unter d​en Preisträgern s​ind sieben spätere Nobelpreisträger (Townes, Purcell, Chandrasekhar, Penzias, Wilson, Fowler, Taylor).

Preisträger

In Klammern d​er Titel d​es Vortrags.

  • 1966 John G. Bolton, Direktor des Australian National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Radio Astronomy: Steppingstones to Quasars)
  • 1967 Jan Hendrik Oort, Direktor des Observatoriums in Leiden (Large-scale Distribution and Motion of Hydrogen in the Galaxy)
  • 1968 Josef Samuilowitsch Schklowski, Leiter der Abteilung Radioastronomie am Sternberg Astronomie Institut der UdSSR (On the Variability of Cosmic Radio Source Emission)
  • 1969 Fred Hoyle, Plumian Professor in Cambridge (The Relationship of Astronomy and Physics).
  • 1970 Robert H. Dicke, Princeton University (Gravitation and the Universe).
  • 1971 Charles H. Townes, University of California, Berkeley (Exploring the Creation)
  • 1972 Bart J. Bok, Steward Observatory (Star Birth in the Galaxy)
  • 1973 J. Paul Wild, Leiter der Abteilung Radiophysik, CSIRO, Sydney (Exploring the Sun with Radio Waves)
  • 1974 Lyman Spitzer, Direktor des Princeton University Observatory (A Space Astronomer Looks at the Interstellar Medium)
  • 1975 Grote Reber, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Tasmanien, Australien (Beginning of Radio Astronomy)
  • 1976 Edward M. Purcell, Harvard University (A story of spinning particles)
  • 1977 Margaret Burbidge, University of California, San Diego (Galaxies, Quasars, and the Space Telescope)
  • 1978 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Universität Chicago (General Relativity in Astronomy at Einstein’s Centennial)
  • 1979 Maarten Schmidt, Direktor des Hale-Observatoriums (Quasars as Probes of the Early Universe)
  • 1980 Martin Schwarzschild, Princeton University (What Shape Galaxies, Pancakes or Potatoes?)
  • 1981 Martin Rees, Plumian Professor in Cambridge (The Next Hundred Billion Years)
  • 1982 Philip Morrison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (The New Waves: Fifty Years of Radio Astronomy)
  • 1983 Arno Penzias, Vizepräsident für Forschung, Bell Laboratories (The Astronomical Origin of the Earth’s Materials)
  • 1984 Robert Woodrow Wilson, Leiter des Radio Physics Research Department, Bell Laboratories (Millimeter Wave Astronomy)
  • 1985 Geoffrey Burbidge, University of California, San Diego (How Strange the Violent Universe?)
  • 1986 Robert Hanbury Brown, Universität Sydney (Stars, Photons, and Uncommon Sense)
  • 1987 Hendrik van de Hulst, Universität Leiden (Far from the Stars)
  • 1988 William A. Fowler, Caltech (The Age of the Observable Universe)
  • 1989 Joseph H. Taylor, Princeton University (Time and the Nature of the Universe)
  • 1990 Alan H. Barrett, MIT (Molecular Radio Astronomy: The Beginnings)
  • 1991 Allan R. Sandage, The Observatories of Carnegie Institution (The Quest for the Curvature of Space)
  • 1992 Irwin I. Shapiro, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Reckoning the Size of the Universe Through Gravitational Lenses)
  • 1993 David S. Heeschen, ehemaliger Direktor des NRAO (The Development of Radio Astronomy in the United States)
  • 1994 Vera C. Rubin, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (What’s the Matter in the Universe)
  • 1995 Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Open University, (Tick, Tick, Tick, Pulsating Star, How We Wonder What You Are)
  • 1996 James M. Moran, Harvard University and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Brilliant Masers and Mysterious Black Holes)
  • 1997 James E. Peebles, Princeton University (The Big Bang and Our Evolving Universe)
  • 1998 Bernard Burke, MIT, (Radio Telescopes: Reaching for the Astronomical Frontiers)
  • 1999 Frank D. Drake, SETI Institute and University of California, Santa Cruz (Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
  • 2000 V. Radhakrishnan, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, Indien (Astronomy’s Devices)
  • 2001 William J. Welch, University of California, Berkeley (Astronomical Arrays of the Future; Astronomy, SETI, and More)
  • 2002 Shrinivas Kulkarni, Caltech (The Brightest Explosions in the Universe)
  • 2003 Donald C. Backer, Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (Massive Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Pulsars)
  • 2004 Ronald D. Ekers, Australia Telescope National Facility (Paths to Discovery)
  • 2005 Rashid Sunyaev, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Garching (Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Clusters of Galaxies and Cosmology)
  • 2006 Frank J. Low, Infrared Laboratories, Inc. (How the Spitzer Space Telescope was Designed, Tested and Built)
  • 2007 Karl Martin Menten, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn (Tuning in to the Molecular Universe)
  • 2008 Arthur M. Wolfe, University of California, San Diego (Finding the Gas that Makes Galaxies)
  • 2009 Anthony Readhead, Caltech (The Central Engines that Power Active Galaxies)
  • 2010 Reinhard Genzel, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (The Galactic Center Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster)
  • 2011 Sander Weinreb, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech (Radio Astronomy from Jansky to the Future: an Engineer’s Point of View)
  • 2012 Mark Reid, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) (Measuring the Cosmos)
  • 2013 Charles L. Bennett, Johns Hopkins University (A Tour of the Universe)
  • 2014 Jill Tarter, SETI-Institut (Are We Alone? Searching for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth)
  • 2015 Nick Z. Scoville, Caltech (Star and Planet Formation through Cosmic Time)
  • 2016 Jacqueline H. van Gorkom, Columbia University (Gas and Galaxy Evolution)
  • 2017 Bernard Fanaroff, Square Kilometer Array South Africa (Observing the Universe from Africa: Linking Radio Astronomy and Development)
  • 2018 Roger D. Blandford, Stanford University (The Radio Harvest)
  • 2019 Anneila Sargent, California Institute of Technology (Expanding Horizons with Millimeter/Submillimeter Astronomy)
  • 2020 Martha P. Haynes, Cornell University (70 Years of Studying Hydrogen with Radio Telescopes: From Dark Matter to the Dark Ages)
  • 2021 Luis F. Rodriguez, Nationale Autonome Universität von Mexiko[1]

Einzelnachweise
  1. 2021 Jansky Lectureship Awarded to Mexican Astronomer. In: nrao.edu. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 21. Juni 2021, abgerufen am 8. Juli 2021 (englisch).
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