Alice Kust Harding is an American astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
Early life and education
editHarding earned a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1973,[1] and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, in 1979.[2]
Career and research
editIn 1980, Harding was appointed as astrophysicist in the Astrophysics Science Division at Goddard Space Flight Center, a post she has held since then. Her main research interests have been high-energy particle acceleration and radiation processes in pulsars, highly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars), gamma-ray bursts, and supernova remnants. [3]
Harding works as part of astrophysics collaborations including the NICER Science Team, the Fermi Collaboration[3] and AMEGO.[4]
Awards and honours
editHarding was awarded the status of Fellow[5] in the American Physical Society,[6] after being nominated by their Division of Astrophysics in 1991,[7] for pioneering investigation of the theory of pulsar atmospheres, including the pulsar wind and its role in accelerating particles to high energies, and for contributions to the theory of basic electromagnetic interactions in the presence of super-strong magnetic fields.
In 1994, Harding received a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1994.[1] In 2012, she was awarded the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award in recognition of her scientific achievements at Goddard.[8]
Harding was awarded the 2013 Bruno Rossi Prize together with Roger W. Romani for establishing a theoretical framework for understanding gamma-ray pulsars.[9][10] She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. [11]
References
edit- ^ a b "NASA Astrophysicist Alice K. Harding '73 to Open Summer Series of Lectures by Prominent Women in Science". Bryn Mawr College News Archive. June 23, 2011. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Astronomy Alumni & PhD Theses". University of Massachusetts Amherst - College of Natural Sciences - Department of Astronomy. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Alice K. Harding". APS. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ "AMEGO: Team". asd.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
- ^ "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ "APS Fellows 1991". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ "Lindsay Awards and Lectures". scicolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- ^ "HEAD AAS Rossi Prize Winners | High Energy Astrophysics Division". head.aas.org. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
- ^ Administrator, NASA (2013-06-06). "NASA Goddard Astrophysicist Wins Prize for Pulsar Work". NASA. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
- ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
Publications
edit- Harding A.K.; Stecker F.W. (1981). "Pulsar and diffuse contributions to observed galactic γ radiation". Nature. 290: 316-318 DOI: 10.1038/290316a0
- Daugherty J.K.; Harding A.K. (1982). "Electromagnetic cascades in pulsars". The Astrophysical Journal. 252: 337-347. DOI: 10.1086/159561