AIP Heineman Lecture: Piero Madau

On Tuesday afternoon AAS President Meg Urry (Yale University) and American Institute of Physics Executive Director Fred Dylla awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize in Astrophysics to Piero Madau (University of California, Santa Cruz) for his fundamental contributions to our understanding of the era of first light in the universe, the ionization and heating of the intergalactic medium, and the formation and evolution of galaxies. His prize lecture was entitled "The Dark and Light Side of Galaxy Formation."