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Explanation of prizes:
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Dan David Prize 2017
... initiating and developing the field of time domain astronomy
($1M purse shared with Gehrels, Udalski)

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Shaw Prize in 2024
   The Shaw Prize, sometimes called the Nobel of the East, is given
   for subjects not covered by the Nobel prize: mathematics, life
   sciences and astronomy. I was the sole winner of the $1.2M purse.

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NSF Alan T. Waterman Award. 1992
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In the US this is valued highly.  This is awarded by the National
Science Foundation and is given once a year to the most accomplished
scientist/doctor/engineer (all fields) working in the US and under
the age of 35 years.  The first astronomer to receive this prize.
Clearly, a lot of luck in winning this jackpot.

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AD White Professor-At-Large, Cornell University. Appointed 2007
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The Andrew D. White Professor-at-large was founded in celebration of
Cornell's first centenary and named in honor of the first president
of Cornell University. "At any one time, twenty outstanding intellectuals
from across the globe hold the title of Andrew Dickson White
Professor-at-Large and are considered full members of the Cornell
faculty ... to enliven the intellectual and culturval life of the
University".

Past professors include John Cleese (Monty Python), Sir Fred Hoyle, 
Har Gobin Khorana, 
Barbara McClintock, Amartya Sen, M. S. Swaminathan and Kip Thorne.

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Jansky Award 2002
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The Jansky Lectureship is awarded each year by the Trustees of
Associated Universities, Inc., to recognize outstanding contributions
to the advancement of astronomy.  First awarded in 1966, it is named in
honor of the man who, in 1932, first detected radio waves from a cosmic
source. Karl Jansky's discovery of radio waves from the central region
of our Milky Way Galaxy started the science of radio astronomy.

http://www.nrao.edu/jansky

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Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Elected 2001.
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In recognition of my discovery of the first 
millisecond pulsar, the first brown dwarf and contributions to the
field of high energy transients -- soft gamma ray repeaters and
gamma ray bursts.

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IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award. 1996 

Co-shared with Y. Deveshwar, Chairman, Indian Tobacco Corporation, India


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Helen B. Warner Prize. 1991

This is awarded to an astronomer in North America (US, Canada,
Mexico) under the age of 35 years who has made outstanding contributions
to astronomy and astrophysics.

For my work on globular cluster pulsars.

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Packard Fellowship. 1990

Every year, the Packard Foundation awards 20 Fellowships across
all sciences and engineering to those considered outstanding
(and within three years of their appointment to a faculty
position). 

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Vainu Bappu Memorial Award. 1990

This is awarded to an astronomer under the age of 35 years
and who has made outstanding contributions to astronomy and
astrophysics. This is awarded by the Astronomical Society of
India.


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NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. 1988.

Awarded by the US National Science Foundation for 
new faculty members on the basis of future promise.
The certificate is from the US President.