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Radio Science Bulletin 313 - June 2005 - URSI

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<strong>URSI</strong> AWARDS <strong>2005</strong>The <strong>URSI</strong> Board of Officers decided at their May <strong>2005</strong> meeting in Ghent to follow the recommendations of the Awards Paneland to give the <strong>2005</strong> Awards to the following distinguished scientists:The Balthasar Van der Pol GoldMedalThe Balthasar Van der Pol Gold Medal was awarded toProf. Ismo V.I. Lindell with the citation :“For the development of newmethods and solutions inelectromagnetic field theoryand for exceptional skills.”John Howard Dellinger GoldMedalThe John Howard Dellinger Gold Medal was awarded toProf. Jorgen B. Andersen with the citation:“For significant contributionsto the theory of antennacharacteristics and scattering,wave propagation andinhomogeneous areas in mobilecommunication, and interactionbetween electromagneticfield and biologicaltissue.”Appleton PrizeAfter considering the views submitted by the AwardsAdvisory Panel, the Board of Officers submitted a short listof candidates in order of preference, with reasons for theorder, to the Royal Society.The Council of the Royal Society approved therecommendation of the <strong>URSI</strong> Board to award the <strong>2005</strong>Appleton Prize to Dr. DidierMassonnet, with the citation:“For his outstandingwork on radar imaging andsatellite radar interferometry,a technique combininghigh frequencies, propagationand digital signalprocessing.”The Awards were presented at theOpening Ceremony of the XXVIIIthGeneral Assembly, at the Siri FortAuditorium in New Delhi, India, onSunday 23 october <strong>2005</strong> at 4 p.m.Booker Gold MedalThe Booker Gold Medal was awarded to Prof. YahiaRahmat-Samii with the citation :”For fundamental contributionsto reflector antennadesign and practice, nearfieldmeasurements and diagnostictechniques,handheld antennas and humaninteractions, geneticalgorithms in electromagnetics,and the spectraltheory of diffraction.“Koga Gold MedalThe Koga Gold Medal was awarded to Prof. Susan C.Hagness, with the citation :“For contributions to the developmentof enhanced finitedifferencetime-domainmethods in computationalelectromagnetics, and ultrawidebandmicrowave imagingtechniques for early breastcancer detection.”The<strong>Radio</strong> <strong>Science</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> No <strong>313</strong> (<strong>June</strong>, <strong>2005</strong>) 9

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