Title:

Staff Member, Astronomy

Affiliation:

Carnegie Institution of Washington

Department of Terrestrial Magnetism

5241 Broad Branch Road NW

Washington, 20015 USA

Gender:

Female

Year Deceased:

2016

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1993

Citation:

"For her pioneering research programs in observational cosmology which demonstrated that much of the matter in the universe is dark and for significant contributions to the realization that the universe is more complex and more mysterious than had been imagined."

Presented by President Clinton and Vice President Gore at a ceremony on the White House South Lawn, September 30, 1993.