James H. Buckley, Ph.D., recently arrived assistant professor of physics in Arts and Sciences, received the prestigious Shakti P. Duggal Award, which was presented at the 25th International Cosmic Ray Conference, held last month in Durban, South Africa.
The award, given biennially, was established in 1983 to recognize outstanding work by a young scientist in the field of cosmic ray physics. An international committee of distinguished scientists selects the prizewinner, who receives $1,200. In addition to the award, Buckley has been invited to present a colloquium at the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware next year.
Buckley holds a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from the University of Toledo and a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago. From 1993 until this year, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, doing research in gamma-ray astronomy with air Cerenkov telescopes.
His research interests include the origin of cosmic rays and the study of high-energy gamma ray emissions from supernova remnants. He has co-authored more than 40 articles and given eight invited talks on gamma rays and the origin of cosmic rays.
Buckley also did balloon-borne measurements of high-energy cosmic rays during a research assistantship from 1987 to 1993 at the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute and physics department. He was awarded a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program grant from 1988 to 1991.
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