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Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members and Key NRC Staff
Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members and Key NRC Staff
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SOURCE: After Figure 2.5 in Federal Funding of Astronomical Research (National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000)
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He has been awarded numerous medals, including the National Medal of Technology and, on five occasions, the Department of Defense's highest civilian decoration, the Distinguished Service Medal. He is a former chair of the National Academy of Engineering and a former president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and he has served on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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CLAUDE CANIZARES is the Bruno Rossi Professor of Experimental Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Center for Space Research. He is a principal investigator on NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, leading the development of the High Resolution Transmission Grating Spectrometer for this major space observatory, and is associate director of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center.
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Hackwell built the Wyoming Infrared Observatory with funds they obtained from the State of Wyoming and the National Science Foundation. His primary research contributions are on the physical properties of astrophysical grains in interstellar, circumstellar, and solar system environments, the physics of nova explosions and their chemical contributions to the interstellar medium, the physical characteristics of the circumstellar ejecta of luminous stars, the infrared morphology of regions of star formation, and the infrared activity of comet nuclei.
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She has also served on the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate. She was a member of the most recent Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee.
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Singer oversees the operations and research of five renowned scientific research laboratories, including the Carnegie Observatories and its telescopes at Las Campanas, Chile. She also has instituted a community outreach and education program that brings leading scientific speakers to the community and trains local science teachers.
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In 1998 he was awarded the Beatrice Tinsley Prize of the American Astronomical Society for his leadership of the Hubble Deep Field project, which used the Hubble Telescope to study distant galaxies in the early universe. For this project, he was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1999.
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He is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Astronomical Society, and the International Astronomical Union. He has published research articles in refereed journals in high-energy physics, condensedmatter physics, and environmental science.
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