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28-10-2016
Jacqueline van Gorkom: 2016 Jansky Lecturerer
| Submitter: | Jan Noordam | ||
| Description: | The highly prestigious Jansky Lectureship has been awarded this year to our very own Jacqueline van Gorkom. She is one of the "golden crop" of uncommonly succesful Dutch female astronomers, which also includes Imke de Pater and Ewine van Dishoeck. Jacqueline received her Ph.D in astronomy from the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen, was a postdoc at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and worked at the Raman Research Institute in India and Princeton University before joining the faculty at Columbia in 1988. She currently is Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy, and has served as Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Director of Graduate Studies. This is the 51st Jansky Lectureship, which is named in honor of Bell Labs antenna engineer Karl Jansky who first detected radio waves from a cosmic source (1932). Other recipients of the award include seven Nobel laureates (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Edward Purcell, Charles Townes, Arno Penzias, Robert Wilson, William Fowler, and Joseph Taylor) as well as Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, discoverer of the first pulsar, and Vera Rubin. The image shows Jacqueline, a giant among giants, as a member of the SKA Site Advisory Committee (SSAC, 2012): Ernie Seaquist (lower left), Wim Brouw, Tom Garvin, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Peter Tindemans, Stefan Michalowski, Jim Moran, Ian Corbett, Jacqueline Van Gorkom, Jaap Baars, Jim Crocker, Subramaniam Ananthakrishnan, Roger Brissenden. Professor van Gorkom's awards include a National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women, a Miller Visiting Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, a Da Vinci Professorship at the Kapteyn Institute, and election as a Corresponding Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. In addition, she has served on the visiting committees of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and several radio observatories; on advisory committees for the VLA Upgrade Project; on the board of ASTRON, the Dutch National radio astronomy observatory; and on the site selection advisory committee for the Square Kilometre Array. She also has served on the scientific organizing committees of several astronomical symposia and on numerous proposal review boards for a variety of observatories and funding agencies. Copyright: | SKA | |
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