Major awards to three SN writers.Major Awards to Three SN Writers Three SCIENCE NEWS writers won major awards in 1987. Space Sciences Editor Jonathan Eberhart received a unique, first-time award from the organizers of the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference; Senior and Physics Editor Dietrick E. Thomsen was presented the Glenn T. Seaborg Noun 1. Glenn T. Seaborg - United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999) Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Seaborg Award of the International Platform Association; and former Biomedicine biomedicine /bio·med·i·cine/ (bi?o-med´i-sin) clinical medicine based on the principles of the natural sciences (biology, biochemistry, etc.).biomed´ical bi·o·med·i·cine n. 1. Editor Joanne Silberner, now at U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, received the American Heart Association's Howard W. Blakeslee Award. Eberhart, who began his career at SCIENCE NEWS in 1960, was recognized in March by the Steering Committee for the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in Houston for "his contribution to public awareness of the planetary sciences.' The award was presented by Michael Duke of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Eberhart also won the 1976 American Association for the Advancement of Science-Westinghouse Award for magazine science writing. Thomsen, who came to SCIENCE NEWS in 1968, received the Glenn T. Seaborg Award in Washington, D.C., at the International Platform Association's meeting in August. The annual award--named after the Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. winner and president of the board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. of Science Service, which publishes SCIENCE NEWS--is presented to "that person who has done the most to acquaint the public with important new scientific developments.' Past winners have included Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Stephen J. Gould, Walter Sullivan of the The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times and Dennis Flanagan of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Silberner, who worked at SCIENCE NEWS from 1982 until April 1987, was given the Blakeslee Award for magazine writing for several articles in SCIENCE NEWS dealing with heart and blood vessel research. She received the award in June at an American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. meeting in Dallas. Congratulations to all three. Photo: Eberhart Photo: Thomsen Photo: Silberner |
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