advancement of women in neuroscience." The Salpeters had two daughters, Judy Salpeter and Dr. Shelley Salpeter. After Miriam's death, Edwin married Antonia Shouse. Honors Carnegie Institution for Science Award for Research in Astrophysics (1959) Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1967) Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1967) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1973) Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1974) J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1974) Member of the American Philosophical Society (1977) Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1985) Bruce Medal (1987) Dirac Medal (1996) Crafoord Prize (with Fred Hoyle) (1997) Hans Bethe Prize (1999) References External links Bruce Medal page bio page Oral History interview transcript with Edwin Ernest Salpeter on 30 March 1978, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives - interview conducted by Spencer Weart at Newman Laboratory, Cornell University Interviewed by Mark Turin on 12 November 2008 (video) Yervant Terzian, "Edwin E. Salpeter," Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2009) 1924 births 2008 deaths Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Austrian emigrants to Australia Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom Australian emigrants to the United States 20th-century American astronomers Jewish scientists 20th-century Australian astronomers Foreign Members of the Royal Society Members of the Eurasian Astronomical Society Cornell University faculty Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Alumni of the University of Birmingham Members of the American Philosophical Society