Menzel Awarded $500 For Stellar Research

Donald H. Meuzel, professor of Astrophysics, won the $500 A. Cresay Morrison Prize for a paper entitled "Energy Sources in Giant Stars," the New York Academy of Sciences announced December 17.

Menzel has won this prize three times out of the six that it has been awarded since 1926. He won the first prize offered in 1926 when associated with the Lick Observatory at the University of California. In 1828 he shared it with P. R. Gerasimovie of the Harvard College Observatory for a paper on which they collaborated.