UA professor to get astronomy medal.

From: AZ Daily Star | Date: May 24, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Eric Swedlund

May 24--A UA professor whose pioneering work in infrared astronomy extends from inventions in the 1960s to instrumentation on NASA's cutting-edge Spitzer Space Telescope will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Frank J. Low, a Regents' Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, will receive the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for lifetime achievement at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific annual meeting in September. It is the society's most prestigious award, announced Tuesday. Low, who came ...

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