From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 10:10:32 PST
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Subject: JPL Origins Theme Technologist Receives Goddard Award
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April 1, 2003
News Release: 2003-046
JPL Origins Theme Technologist Receives Goddard Award
Dr. James Breckinridge, Origins theme technologist at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been named the 2003
recipient of the International Society for Optical Engineering's
George W. Goddard Award.
The award is presented each year to recognize exceptional achievement
in optical or photonic instrumentation for aerospace applications.
Breckinridge is being recognized for his cumulative work in several
areas, including interferometry (using multiple telescopes to simulate
a much larger telescope); corrective optics for the Hubble Space
Telescope, optical sciences for NASA's Origins Program, and teaching
optical system engineering at the California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, Calif., for 15 years.
Breckinridge will receive his award on Wed., August 6, in San Diego,
Calif., at an international symposium held by the International
Society for Optical Engineering.
As Origins theme technologist at JPL, Breckinridge oversees the
technology aspects of the program that seeks to answer two enduring
human questions: Where do we come from? Are we alone?
During his previous employment at JPL from 1976 to 1999, he formed and
managed JPL's optical sciences section, and served as an optics
technologist in the observational systems division, which developed
the Hubble telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 to repair the
telescope's flawed optical system. During his three-year assignment
at the National Science Foundation, Breckinridge held two positions --
as program director for Advanced Technology and Instruments and
program manager for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Breckinridge received his bachelor's degree in physics from Case
Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, and his master's and doctorate
degrees in optical sciences from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
He holds six patents for innovative optical systems and has authored
many scientific papers. His numerous honors include serving as
president of the International Society for Optical Engineering and
being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. Breckinridge and his wife, Ann, live in Pasadena, Calif.
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