Title:

Professor of Astronomy

Affiliation:

Princeton University

 Astrophysical Sciences

Peyton Hall, Room 113

Princeton,New Jersey 08544 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2020

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

2008

Citation:

"For his brilliant design of many of the most influential telescopes and instruments in astronomy, and in particular for the crucial role those technological marvels played in the creation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has cataloged 200 million stars, galaxies, and quasars; discovered the most distant known quasars; and probed the epoch of formation of the first stars and galaxies."

Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on October 7, 2009.