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01/21/2015

Caltech Professors Named Fellows of the AAAS

Lorinda Dajose

Caltech Professor of Astronomy George Djorgovski and chemist Bruce Brunschwig are among the 401 newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for 2014.

01/16/2015

Fiona Harrison Awarded High-Energy Astrophysics Prize

Lorinda Dajose

The 2015 Rossi Prize has been awarded to Fiona Harrison, the Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics at Caltech, for her "groundbreaking work on supernova remnants, neutron stars, and black holes enabled by NuSTAR." The award is the top prize in high-energy astrophysics.

10/08/2014

Caltech Physics Professors Earn NASA Medals

Douglas Smith

Jamie Bock, professor of physics at Caltech and a senior research scientist at JPL, and Caltech Professor of Physics Christopher Martin were among those receiving NASA Honor Awards in a ceremony on Tuesday, September 16.

10/08/2014

Alumnus Eric Betzig Wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Kathy Svitil

Eric Betzig (BS '83) has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

08/15/2014

Superstring Theorist Honored with Science Writing Prize

Kathy Svitil

Caltech's Hirosi Ooguri has been selected to receive the Kodansha Prize for Science Books, Japan's only major prize for science books, for his popular science work, Introduction to Superstring Theory.

07/30/2014

Sean Carroll Brings Physics to the Masses

Douglas Smith

Sean Carroll, a senior research associate in physics at Caltech, has won the 2014 Andrew Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics.

07/22/2014

Ed Stone Honored

Douglas Smith

Ed Stone, Caltech's David Morrisroe Professor of Physics, has won the aerospace equivalent of an Oscar. On Wednesday, July 16, the American Astronautical Society (AAS) presented him its sixth Lifetime Achievement Award for his "sustained and extraordinary contributions to America's space programs, including innovative planetary missions."

05/01/2014

Mathematician Elected to Royal Society

Kimm Fesenmaier

Vladimir Markovic, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at Caltech, has been named a fellow of Great Britain's Royal Society. Markovic's election brings to seven the number of fellows and foreign members of the Royal Society currently on the Caltech faculty.