November 2019
Congratulations Dr. Ed Stone! 

TMT International Observatory Executive Director, Dr. Edward C. Stone, was recently awarded the prestigious  2019 Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his leadership on the Voyager project. The international award honors excellent accomplishments in three categories: Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences.




Stone has served as the project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission since 1972. The Voyager project consists of two spacecrafts launched in 1977 to explore the farthest reaches of our solar system. Under Stone's leadership, the Voyager project has transformed our understanding of the four giant planets of our system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), as well as the outer solar system.

The Voyager's scientific accomplishments, as well as its duration of over four decades, make it an unparalleled mission. The Voyager mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

The Shaw Prize Award Presentation Ceremony 2019
The Shaw Prize Award Presentation Ceremony 2019
Professor Stone, former JPL Director and Vice Provost for Speci al Projects at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), currently holds the position of David Morrisroe Professor of Physics at Caltech and is on the Board of the Thirty Meter Telescope project.

Congratulations to Ed Stone for these historic scientific achievements and vital discoveries. An exceptional leader and inspirational figure in the field of space science, he has led and coordinated outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research.

About The Shaw Prize
The Shaw Prize is an international award to honour individuals who are currently active in their respective fields and who have recently achieved distinguished and significant advances, who have made outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research or applications, or who in other domains have achieved excellence. The award is dedicated to furthering societal progress, enhancing quality of life, and enriching humanity's spiritual civilization.


TMT
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project has been developed as collaboration among Caltech, the University of California (UC), the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA), and the national institutes of Japan, China, and India with the goal to design, develop, construct, and operate a thirty-meter class telescope and observatory on Maunakea in cooperation with the University of Hawaii (TMT Project). The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), a non-profit organization, was established in May 2014 to carry out the construction and operation phases of the TMT Project. The Members of TIO are Caltech, UC, the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is a TIO Associate. Major funding has been provided by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. 

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