Wempe Award for Elisabeth Newton
Professor Elisabeth Newton.
Credit: privateIn recognition of her outstanding research on the rotation and magnetism of low-mass stars, the Johann Wempe Foundation is honoring Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Newton of Dartmouth College, USA, with the Wempe Award. The ceremony will take place on 26 September 2019, starting at 3:00 pm at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Babelsberg.
Prof. Newton's research deals with the physics of stars and their planets, in particular with long-lived low-mass M-class dwarf stars, their rotation and magnetism, and the formation of exoplanets.
Prof. Newton received her doctorate from Harvard University with a thesis on M dwarf stars and subsequently researched M dwarf stars as host stars of planets as a Postdoctoral National Science Foundation Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since the beginning of the year she has been Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA.
Her work on the rotation of very low-mass M dwarf stars has attracted much attention and offers direct links to AIP research on stellar activity and exoplanets. M dwarf stars have such low luminosity that not one is visible from Earth with the naked eye, even though they make up a large percentage of all stars.
Schedule of the award ceremony
From 3:00 pm
- Opening by Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz, Scientific Chairman at AIP
- Welcome by Dr. Jürgen Kroseberg, Federal Ministry of Education and Rsearch
- Laudation by Prof. Dr. Katja Poppenhäger, section head of Stellar physics and exoplanets at AIP
- Award ceremony
- Ceremonial lecture by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Newton “Spin and magnetism in M dwarf stars”
- Reception
About the Wempe Award
In honor of Prof. Dr. Johann Wempe (1906 - 1980), the last director of the former Astrophysical Observatory of Potsdam, the Johann Wempe Award, first awarded in 2000, is granted to an outstanding scientist. The award is financed from funds left in the will of Johann Wempe.
Former recipients are Alice Quillen, Oliver Gressel, Brent Tully, Thomas R. Ayres, Yehuda Hoffman, Matthias Rempel, Kenneth C. Freeman, Ignasi Ribas, Eva Grebel, Alexander Kosovichev, Isabelle Baraffe und Gilles Chabrier, Russell Cannon and Tom Abel.
Professor Elisabeth Newton.
Credit: privateIn recognition of her outstanding research on the rotation and magnetism of low-mass stars, the Johann Wempe Foundation is honoring Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Newton of Dartmouth College, USA, with the Wempe Award. The ceremony will take place on 26 September 2019, starting at 3:00 pm at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Babelsberg.
Prof. Newton's research deals with the physics of stars and their planets, in particular with long-lived low-mass M-class dwarf stars, their rotation and magnetism, and the formation of exoplanets.
Prof. Newton received her doctorate from Harvard University with a thesis on M dwarf stars and subsequently researched M dwarf stars as host stars of planets as a Postdoctoral National Science Foundation Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since the beginning of the year she has been Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA.
Her work on the rotation of very low-mass M dwarf stars has attracted much attention and offers direct links to AIP research on stellar activity and exoplanets. M dwarf stars have such low luminosity that not one is visible from Earth with the naked eye, even though they make up a large percentage of all stars.
Schedule of the award ceremony
From 3:00 pm
- Opening by Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz, Scientific Chairman at AIP
- Welcome by Dr. Jürgen Kroseberg, Federal Ministry of Education and Rsearch
- Laudation by Prof. Dr. Katja Poppenhäger, section head of Stellar physics and exoplanets at AIP
- Award ceremony
- Ceremonial lecture by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Newton “Spin and magnetism in M dwarf stars”
- Reception
About the Wempe Award
In honor of Prof. Dr. Johann Wempe (1906 - 1980), the last director of the former Astrophysical Observatory of Potsdam, the Johann Wempe Award, first awarded in 2000, is granted to an outstanding scientist. The award is financed from funds left in the will of Johann Wempe.
Former recipients are Alice Quillen, Oliver Gressel, Brent Tully, Thomas R. Ayres, Yehuda Hoffman, Matthias Rempel, Kenneth C. Freeman, Ignasi Ribas, Eva Grebel, Alexander Kosovichev, Isabelle Baraffe und Gilles Chabrier, Russell Cannon and Tom Abel.
Images
Professor Elisabeth Newton.
Artist’s impression of an M dwarf star with planets.
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