The Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation is awarded by the American Astronomical Society to an individual for the design, invention or significant improvement of instrumentation leading to advances in astronomy. It is named after physicist Joseph Weber. The awards tend to be for a career of instrument development rather than a single specific device; the lists of inventions below are taken from press releases from the recipients' institutions.
Weber Award winners are:
| Year | Recipient | Inventions |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | James E. Gunn | CCDs in astronomy: WFPC on Hubble, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ... |
| 2003 | Frank J. Low | IR detection by bolometer arrays |
| 2004 | Thomas G. Phillips | Sub-millimetre and terahertz instrumentation |
| 2005 | Stephen Shectman | Active optics |
| 2006 | J. Roger Angel | Adaptive optics for infra-red spectroscopy |
| 2007 | Harvey Moseley | Microshutter arrays, X-ray microcalorimeter |
| 2008 | James R. Houck | Spectrographs for infrared astronomy |
| 2009 | Peter Serlemitsos | |
| 2010 | Donald Hall | |
| 2011 | Edward S. Cheng | |
| 2012 | Thijs de Graauw |
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