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The HEAD Distinguished Career Prize Winners
2024 Roger Chevalier
The Distinguished Career Prize has been awarded to Roger Chevalier for pioneering work on a wide range of topics in the field of high-energy astrophysics, including the structure and evolution of supernova remnants, gamma-ray bursts, pulsar winds, galactic winds, hydrodynamics, and shocks.
2023 Claudia Megan Urry
The Inaugural Distinguished Career Prize has been awarded to Claudia Megan (Meg) Urry for her remarkable contributions to our understanding of a wide variety of topics in extragalactic high energy astrophysics, for establishing the unification paradigm of active galactic nuclei, her work on the origin of the extragalactic X-ray background, and for her tireless advocacy and support of women and underrepresented groups in science.