SETI bioastro: FW: [HASTRO-L] Steven J. Dick Awarded the HAD LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy

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>From: Ronald Brashear <brashearr_at_SI.EDU>
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>Subject: [HASTRO-L] Steven J. Dick Awarded the HAD LeRoy E. Doggett Prize
>for Historical Astronomy
>Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 15:19:41 -0400
>

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The Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society is
pleased to announce that Steven J. Dick has been awarded the fifth LeRoy E.
Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy. The award of the Prize was for his
distinguished career and publication record that has significantly
influenced the field of the history of astronomy. The HAD will present Dr.
Dick with the Doggett Prize and he will deliver the Doggett Prize Address at
the January 2006 HAD meeting in Washington, DC.

Steve Dick's career as a historian of astronomy spans more than twenty-five
years during which he has become one of the most respected scholars in the
field. He established his reputation with his tremendously productive
research in the history of ideas of extraterrestrial life. This has resulted
in the publication of three books on the subject, all by Cambridge
University Press: Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial
Life Debate from Democritus to Kant (1983), The Biological Universe, the
Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate, and the Limits of Science
(1996), and Life on Other Worlds: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial
Life Debate (1998). His other major career work has been his history of the
United States Naval Observatory, Sky and Ocean Joined (Cambridge, 2003), an
exceptional book that is essential reading for all historians of astronomy.
His many other co-edited volumes and historical papers stand as a testament
to his important contributions to our discipline.

Steve Dick has also been an active and involved member of the history of
astronomy community. He has been elected Vice-Chair and Chair of the
Historical Astronomy Division of the AAS and later Vice-President and
President of the IAU Commission 41 on History of Astronomy. Locally, Steve
Dick has also served as Vice-President and President of the Philosophical
Society of Washington.

>From 1989 to 2003, Steve Dick was Historian of Science at the U.S. Naval
Observatory. Since 2003 he has been Chief Historian at NASA.

Please join us in congratulating Steve Dick for his achievement and
recognition in this presentation of the Doggett Prize.

HAD Web Site: www.aas.org/had/had.html

-Ronald Brashear, HAD Secretary-Treasurer

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Dibner Library of the History of Science & Technology
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Smithsonian Institution
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