A researcher from the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute has received a prestigious, lifetime achievement award from NASA.
Henry Brean A researcher from the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute has received a prestigious, lifetime achievement award from NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute.
“It is hard to overstate the effect that Dr. Feldman has had on lunar science and planetary science as a whole,” said the citation from the NASA institute. “In addition to contributing to the discovery of water in the lunar polar regions, he nearly singlehandedly founded the field of planetary neutron spectroscopy and pioneered X-ray, gamma-ray and neutron spectroscopic techniques.”
People are also reading… The senior scientist emeritus, who joined PSI in 2005, has also authored or co-authored more than 350 scientific papers and served as chairman of NASA’s Solar Probe Science Study Team.Feldman was previously named as a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and as a lab fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where he still lives.
The award is named after one of the founders of the planetary science field, American geologist Eugene Shoemaker, who died in 1997.On Monday, the private, nonprofit institute announced that PSI senior scientist David Grinspoon has been chosen to lead NASA’s study of the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe.
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