Title:

Richard Black Professor of Natural Sciencesand Visiting Lecturer with rank of Professor

Affiliation:

Institute for Advanced Study

Princeton University

Princeton,New Jersey 08540 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2005

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1998

Citation:

"For his fundamental contributions to areas of modern astrophysics ranging from solar neutrino physics to the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy to cosmology, and for his leadership of the astronomical community, especially his tireless advocacy of the Hubble Space Telescope."

Presented by President William Jefferson Clinton in a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, April 27, 1999