Alice K. Harding | |
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 Harding in 2012 | |
| Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College (BA), University of Massachusetts-Amherst (PhD) |
| Awards | Bruno Rossi Prize 2013 |
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| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Thesis | Propagation in Pulsar Magnetospheres: Effects of A Shearing Plasma (1979) |
Alice Kust Harding is an American astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
Harding earned a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1973, [1] and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, in 1979. [2]
In 1980, Harding was appointed as astrophysicist in the Astrophysics Science Division at Goddard Space Flight Center, a post she has held since then. Her main research interests have been high-energy particle acceleration and radiation processes in pulsars, highly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars), gamma-ray bursts, and supernova remnants. [3]
Harding works as part of astrophysics collaborations including the NICER Science Team, the Fermi Collaboration [3] and AMEGO. [4]
Harding was awarded the status of Fellow [5] in the American Physical Society, [6] after being nominated by their Division of Astrophysics in 1991, [7] for pioneering investigation of the theory of pulsar atmospheres, including the pulsar wind and its role in accelerating particles to high energies, and for contributions to the theory of basic electromagnetic interactions in the presence of super-strong magnetic fields.
In 1994, Harding received a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1994. [1] In 2012, she was awarded the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award in recognition of her scientific achievements at Goddard. [8]
Harding was awarded the 2013 Bruno Rossi Prize together with Roger W. Romani for establishing a theoretical framework for understanding gamma-ray pulsars. [9] [10] She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. [11]
Dr. Reuven Ramaty (1937—2001) was a Hungarian astrophysicist who worked for 30 years at NASA's NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre. He was a leader in the fields of solar physics, gamma-ray line spectrometry, nuclear astrophysics, and low-energy cosmic rays. Ramaty was a founding member of NASA's High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager which has now been renamed the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager in his honour. This was the first space mission to be named after a NASA scientist and was operational from 2002 until 2018. The Online Archive of California holds over 400 entries for documents, papers and photographs published by and of Ramaty and his work. Ramaty made many contributions in the field of astrophysics and solar physics. He was given the Goddard Lindsay Award in 1980 and had a tribute dedicated to his work at the University of Maryland in 2000.
The Bruno Rossi Prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society "for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work". Named after astrophysicist Bruno Rossi, the prize is awarded with a certificate and a gift of USD $500, and was first awarded in 1985 to William R. Forman and Christine Jones Forman "for pioneering work in the study of X-ray emission from early type galaxies". It has been awarded 32 times. In 2010, the prize was awarded to William B. Atwood, Peter Michelson and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope team "for enabling, through the development of the Large Area Telescope, new insights into neutron stars, supernova remnants, cosmic rays, binary systems, active galactic nuclei, and gamma-ray bursts". In 2013, the prize was awarded to Roger W. Romani of Leland Stanford Junior University and Alice Harding of Goddard Space Flight Center for their work in developing the theoretical framework underpinning the many exciting pulsar results from Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
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