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Ray Jayawardhana, Dean of Arts and Sciences Harold Tanner and Professor of Astronomy, received the Dwight Nicholson Medal for 2018 Awareness from the American Physical Society (APS).
The award recognizes the humanitarian aspect of physics and physicists created through public lectures and public media, teaching, research or scientific activities. He will give a lecture at the APS meeting in Boston on March 5th.
The selection committee cited Jayawardhana's contributions as a "large-scale, multi-faceted and impactful" educator and academic leader, noting that he is the author of books and articles Popular on physics for adults and children, that he has frequently appeared in public and in the media, developed innovative awareness programs. and founded the Science Leadership Program at the University of Toronto.
A graduate of Yale and Harvard, Jayawardhana uses many of the world's largest telescopes to explore planetary origins and diversity. He is co-author of more than 125 articles in scientific journals. His book "Strange New Worlds" was the basis of the television documentary "The Planet Hunters" on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; his book "Neutrino Hunters" won the Book Award from the Canadian Association of Scientific Editors. His articles have been published in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Scientific American, among others.
Jayawardhana's other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Harvard Radcliffe Scholarship, and the Rutherford Physics Medal of the Royal Society of Canada.
The Nicholson Medal was established in 1994 and is administered by the APS Public Awareness and Participation Forum. Jayawardhana is Cornell's first faculty member to receive this honor; Last year's laureate was Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Linda B. Glaser is a writer at the Faculty of Arts and Science.
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