ROBERTSON MEMORIAL LECTURE - a prize of $10,000 awarded every three years in any field of science to a distinguished scientist who is invited to lecture on his or her work and its international implications (cosmology in 2005) - goes to JOHN E. CARLSTROM, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor, department of astronomy and astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago. Carlstrom was chosen "for his pioneering use of interferometry to measure the anisotropy and polarization of the cosmic microwave background and its distortion due to intervening hot cluster gas." The lecture was established by friends and associates of Howard P. Robertson and has been presented since 1967.
TROLAND RESEARCH AWARDS - a research award of $50,000 given annually to
each of two recipients to recognize unusual achievement and to further
their research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology - go
to GREGORY C. DEANGELIS, assistant professor of neurobiology, department
of anatomy and neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine,
St. Louis, and to JACOB FELDMAN, associate professor, department of
psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey, Piscataway. DeAngelis was chosen "for his
fundamental contributions to understanding the neural mechanisms
underlying stereoscopic vision: the discovery of a disparity mechanism
and how it contributes to depth perception." Feldman was chosen "for
his advancement of mathematical and computational approaches to
perceptual organization in human vision and human concept learning."
The research awards were established by a bequest from Leonard T
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The National Academies
26-Jan-2005