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Announcements - NRC-HIA astronomer wins top award from NSERC
June 1, 2010
Today, the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), joined Suzanne Fortier, President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), to announce the winners of Canada's top science and engineering awards.
A team comprised of Christian Marois of the National Research Council Canada; David Lafrenière of the University of Toronto; and René Doyon of the Université de Montréal, were awarded the John C. Polanyi Award for capturing the first-ever image of a planetary system outside of our own solar system and have opened the door to imaging other distant regions of space in the search for additional planets.
For more information, please see the full news release.
