Honor will be a shining moment for telescope expert
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 00:01
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Send to friendTUCSON — Roger Angel, director of the University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab and Regents’ Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences, will receive the Kavli Prize during a ceremony in Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday. The eight laureates each will receive a scroll, a gold medal and their share of the $1 million prize for each of the three fields, astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.
The Kavli gold medals were minted at Northwest Territorial Mint in Dayton, Nev.
Each medallion measures just under 3 inches and is fashioned from 10 ounces of gold.
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