Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1954) Frederic Ives Medal (1980) George Van Biesbroeck Prize (1990)
Scientific career
Institutions
Jet Propulsion Laboratory University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences
Aden B. Meinel (November 25, 1922 – October 3, 2011) was an American astronomer. He retired in 1993 as a distinguished scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He also held the rank of professor emeritus at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences. His research interests have included upper atmospheric physics, glass technology, optical design, instrumentation and space systems.
Meinel received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1949. His dissertation is titled A Spectrographic Study of the Night Sky and Aurora in the Near Infrared. In 1944 he married astronomer Marjorie Steele Pettit who became his research partner. They had seven children together.[1]
In 1954, he was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society. He was president of the Optical Society of America in 1972[2] and was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal in 1980. He received the George Van Biesbroeck Prize in 1990.
In 2022 a biography of Meinel and Marjorie was published by Oxford University Press, titled With Stars in Their Eyes: The Extraordinary Lives and Enduring Genius of Aden and Marjorie Meinel.[3]
^Oppenheimer, Ginger (1 June 2002). "The Meinels make their marks in astronomy". SPIE. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
^"Past Presidents of the Optical Society of America". Optic Society of America. Archived from the original on 2009-01-20.
^Winterburn, Emily (June 2022). "With Stars In Their Eyes". BBC Sky at Night. p. 94. ISSN 1745-9869.
Aden B. Meinel (November 25, 1922 – October 3, 2011) was an American astronomer. He retired in 1993 as a distinguished scientist at the Jet Propulsion...
Observatory, California. The asteroid was named for American astronomer AdenMeinel. The S-type asteroid is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest...
father is AdenMeinel and mother is Marjorie Meinel. Meinel married her first husband, Howard Keith Henson, in 1967 and divorced in 1981. Meinel has four...
years she was the research collaborator and wife of fellow astronomer AdenMeinel. Marjorie Steele Pettit was born in Pasadena, California May 13, 1922...
Mary Meinel was born in 1954 or 1955 and raised in Tucson, Arizona, one of seven children of the astronomers AdenMeinel and Marjorie Meinel. She began...
transitions at wavelengths between 700 nanometers and 900 nanometers. In 1950, AdenMeinel showed that these were transitions of the hydroxyl molecule, OH. In 2009...
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design innovations including its unusual optical design proposed by AdenMeinel, a co-rotating building and an altitude-azimuth mount. With the exception...
Mikaelian [ru] 1995: Georges Nomarski 1996: Robert R. Shannon 1997: Marjorie Meinel and AdenMeinel 1998: Thomas I. Harris 1999: William L. Wolfe 2000: Robert E. Fischer...
development, and welfare of society". Recipient of the 2023 SPIE Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award "for pioneering, sustained contributions...
Distinguished Lecturer 2020 NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal 2021 SPIE Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award 2023 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical...
Hill 1987 No Award 1988 E. Dorrit Hoffleit 1989 Brian G. Marsden 1990 Aden B. Meinel 1991 Barry Clark 1992 Bob Kurucz 1993 Janet Akyüz Mattei 1994 Wayne...
still being assessed. Kitt Peak was selected by its first director, Aden B. Meinel, in 1958 as the site for a national observatory under contract with...
1946 Wayne C. Norton 1948 David S. Grey 1950 H. Richard Blackwell 1952 Aden B. Meinel 1954 William Sinton 1956 Walter R. J. Brown 1958 Edward L. O'Neill 1960...
his successes in the role of teacher and interpreter of science. 1980 Aden B. Meinel For his contributions to thermal solar energy, analysis of the principles...
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