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Department Awards Bok Prize Lecture Trumpler Prize Fireman Fellowship (Graduate) Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Leo Goldberg Prize Peirce Fellowship Eric Keto Prize Center for Astrophysics Lectures Endowed Lectures Bok Prize Lecture pH Lecture Lecar Prize...

2014 Hoopes Prize and Goldberg Prize Awarded to Astrononomy Undergraduates

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Alexander Krolewski, has been awarded a Hoopes Prize for the project entitled "Measuring the luminosity and black hole mass dependence of quasar-galaxy clustering at z ~ 0.8." Natania Wolansky, has been awarded a Hoopes Prize for the project entitled "Are...

Eden Girma awarded 2018 Leo Goldberg prize and Hoopes Prize

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Edo Berger also presented the Leo Goldberg prize for excellence in a senior thesis to Eden Girma. Eden is also a recipient of a University Hoopes Prize for the project entitled “Astrometric Detection of Intermediate Mass Black Holes.”

Jennifer Bergner delivers Bok Prize Lecture

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Jennifer Bergner , Assistant Professor in Chemistry at UC Berkeley, delivered the Bok Prize Lecture on "The icy origins of planetary systems ," on January 27, 2026. Kenzie Bok, the great-granddaughter of Bart J. Bok, represented the Bok family and...

Phillip Hopkins 2008 Wins Warner Prize

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Phillip Hopkins 2008, won this year's Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society for his research on galaxy formation and evolution and the growth of supermassive black holes. This prize is given to recognize an early-career astronomer, who in...

Catherine Zucker delivers Bok Prize Lecture

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Catherine Zucker, SAO Astrophysicist and Lecturer in Astronomy, delivered the Bok Prize Lecture on "Our 3D View of the Milky Way: from Bart Bok to the Present Day," on November 12, where she skillfully intertwined the subject's history and science. Kenzie...

Graduating senior, Alessandra Canta, winner of both a College Hoopes Prize and the Department's Senior Goldberg Prize.

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Alessandra switched her concentration to Astronomy only a year ago, just in time to win the most prestigious prizes for her senior thesis "“Unlocking the Key to Life: Observation and Formation of Nitriles in Protoplanetary Disks". Karin Öberg was her...

2014 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

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Harvard Astronomy Professor, Daniel Eisenstein, along with Shaun Cole and John Peacock, to receive the 2014 Shaw prize in astronomy for their contributions to the measurements of features in the large-scale structure of galaxies used to constrain the...

Bob Kirshner awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize

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Bob Kirshner has been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize, a fairly recent award supported by the Wolf Foundation of Tel Aviv. He shares this year's Physic prize with James Bjorken from Stanford University. For details, see http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News...

Goldberg Prizes for Undergrad theses awarded

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Congratulations to the 2023 Leo Goldberg Prizes for best undergraduate theses: Chris Wirth for "A Search for Ultra-Short-Period Planets with TESS" wins the Senior Award. Qijia Zhou for "Competitive Entrapment of Hypervolatiles in Water Ice" wins the...

Harvard Astronomy and Physics Alumni Win Nobel Prize

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 Saul Perlmutter, Harvard Physics undergraduate, and Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess both Harvard Astronomy PhDs were recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize for " for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the...

Astronomy concentrator, Amir Siraj, is recipient of Harvard College Hoopes Prize and the department's Goldberg Prize.

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Amir Siraj is a junior at Harvard College in Leverett House, studying astrophysics. He is a classical pianist and is concurrently pursuing a Master's in Music at the New England Conservatory of Music for piano performance. In his free time, he enjoys...