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Françoise Combes, winner of the American Karl Jansky Prize 2022

1er septembre 2022

Professor at the Collège de France, holder of the chair of galaxies and cosmology, and astrophysicist at the Observatoire de Paris - PSL, Françoise Combes was awarded on August 5, 2022 by the Associated Universities, Inc. and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) the prestigious Karl G. Jansky 2022 prize.

The Jansky Prize is awarded every year to an international scientist in recognition of his or her contribution to the development of radio astronomy.

France honored for the first time

This year, the prize is awarded for the first time to a French astronomer, Professor Françoise Combes, for her career-long and decisive contributions to the fields of galaxy evolution, interstellar medium, dark matter and radio astronomy.

Françoise Combes sous la coupole Arago de l’Observatoire de Paris - PSL
© CNRS

The experience acquired during her remarkable career has radiated on the whole of astronomy.

Françoise Combes is the author of more than 1200 publications and more than 20 books.

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Read also the information
on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory website :
"French Astronomer Honored as 2022 Jansky Lecturer"

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His work has already been awarded many prizes and distinctions, in France and abroad, including

Long-time science editor for the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, she has had a key advisory role in the realization of the ALMA and SKA radio telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the International Astronomical Union.

Françoise Combes will present her Jansky conference under the title : "Symbiosis between black holes and galaxies" :
  • at Charlottesville (NRAO headquarters), Virginia, on February 14, 2023 ;
  • at Greenbank (site of the 100-m telescope) on February 15, 2023 ;
  • at Socorro, (VLA site) in New Mexico, on February 17, 2023.
The Jansky Prize

Named after K. Jansky, discoverer in 1932 of radio waves from a cosmic source and as such, father of radio astronomy, the prize was awarded for the first time in 1966.

Jansky Prize winners include :

  • eight Nobel Prize winners Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Edward Purcell, Charles Townes, Arno Penzias, Robert Wilson, William Fowler, Joseph Taylor, and Reinhard Genzel ;
  • Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, discoverer of the first pulsar ;
  • Vera Rubin, discoverer of dark matter in galaxies.