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William H. Press
Honors and Awards
- Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 2002
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1994
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993
- Most frequently cited U.S. Astronomer, 1990 (according to study in Quarterly Journal R.A.S.)
- Science Digest ``America's 100 Brightest Scientists Under 40", 1984
- Biographee in Who's Who in America, 42nd ed. (1982) et seq.
- Helen B. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society, 1981
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, 1974--78
Other Memberships
- Genetics Society of America
- American Physical Society
- Association for Computing Machinery
- American Astronomical Society
- International Astronomical Union
- International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
- Sigma Xi
Other
- Born May 23, 1948; grew up in Pasadena, CA; graduated Pasadena High School, 1965.
- Technician amateur radio license, K5KAA