{"id":21252,"date":"2013-11-27T14:13:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T00:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=21252"},"modified":"2020-07-01T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:25:05","slug":"astronomer-donald-hall-named-aaas-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/27\/astronomer-donald-hall-named-aaas-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomer Donald Hall named AAAS<\/abbr> fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Donald N.B. Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Astronomer Donald N.B. Hall<\/strong> of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a>. Election as an AAAS<\/abbr> fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS<\/abbr> members by their peers.<\/p>\n

Hall was elected as an AAAS<\/abbr> fellow “for distinguished contributions to the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomy at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and on Mauna Kea, and infrared telescope, instrument, and sensor technology.”<\/p>\n

Hall served as the director of the UH<\/abbr> Institute for Astronomy<\/a> from 1984 until 1997. Prior to that he served as deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute<\/a>, which operates the science program for the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>. He currently works at the Institute for Astronomy’s office in Hilo.<\/p>\n

The main focus of his work is developing infrared detector arrays for astronomical instruments that are mounted on telescopes on the ground and in space. The Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> detector arrays he has worked to develop have already been flown on NASA<\/abbr>’s Hubble Space Telescope, Deep Impact comet mission<\/a> and Wide Field Survey Explorer<\/a>. Fifteen of them, totaling over 60 megapixels, are now being integrated into scientific instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> for launch in 2018. His arrays are also in use at ground-based observatories around the world, including all eight optical-infrared telescopes on Mauna Kea.<\/p>\n

Hall will be one of the 388 new fellows to receive an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on February 15, during the 2014 AAAS<\/abbr> Annual Meeting in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Read the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa news release<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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