Awards & Winners

Herbert Friedman

Date of Birth 21-June-1916
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Astronomer
Herbert Friedman was an American pioneer in the application of sounding rockets to solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy. He was also a statesman and public advocate for science. During his lifetime, he was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the National Medal of Science, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society, the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics, and the Albert A. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute, among others. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1960 and of the American Philosophical Society in 1964.

Awards by Herbert Friedman

Check all the awards nominated and won by Herbert Friedman.

1987


Wolf Prize in Physics
(for pioneering investigations in solar X-rays.)

1968


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For pioneering work in rocket and satellite astronomy and in particular for his contributions to the field of X-ray astronomy.)