Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation

The Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation is awarded by the American Astronomical Society to an individual for the design, invention or significant improvement of instrumentation leading to advances in astronomy. ^[1] It is named after physicist Joseph Weber. The awards tend to be for a career of instrument development rather than a single specific device; the lists of inventions below are taken from press releases from the recipients' institutions.

Weber Award winners

Source: American Astronomical Society

Year	Recipient	Inventions
2002	James E. Gunn	CCDs in astronomy: WFPC on Hubble, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ...
2003	Frank J. Low	IR detection by bolometer arrays
2004	Thomas G. Phillips	Sub-millimetre and terahertz instrumentation
2005	Stephen Shectman	Active optics
2006	Roger Angel	Adaptive optics for infra-red spectroscopy
2007	Harvey Moseley	Microshutter arrays, X-ray microcalorimeter
2008	James R. Houck	Spectrographs for infrared astronomy
2009	Peter Serlemitsos	X-ray detector and telescope designs
2010	Donald N. B. Hall	Low noise detectors for observational infrared astronomy
2011	Edward S. Cheng	Several key instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope
2012	Thijs de Graauw	Short Wavelength Spectrometer on ISO and the Heterodyne Instrument For the Infrared on Herschel
2013	Keith Matthews	Infrared astronomical instrumentation
2014	Sander Weinreb	Digital auto-correlation spectrometers and cryogenic low-noise amplifiers and mixers.
2015	Claire E. Max	Sodium-laser-guide-star adaptive optics

References

1. "Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 21 December 2014.