Title:

Staff Member, Hale Observatories

Affiliation:

Carnegie Institution of Washington

Pasadena,California 91106 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2010

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1970

Citation:

"For bringing the very limits of the universe within the reach of man's awareness and unraveling the evolution fo stars and galaxies--their origins and ages, distances and destinies."

Presented by President Nixon at a White House Ceremony on May 21, 1971.