in the Galaxy. Films and Public Lectures Geller has made several films for public education. Her 8-minute video Where the Galaxies Are (1989) was the first graphic voyage through the observed universe and was awarded a CINE Gold Eagle. A later 40-minute film, So Many Galaxies...So Little Time, contains more sophisticated prize-winning (IEEE/Siggraph) graphics and was on display at the National Air and Space Museum. Geller has lectured extensively to public audiences around the world. She has lectured twice in the main amphitheater at the Chautauqua Institution. She is included in NPR's list of The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever. Her story about her entry into astrophysics and meeting the renowned astrophysicist John Archibald Wheeler, entitled "Mapping the Universe" was published by The Story Collider podcast on May 21, 2014. Books Geller's work is discussed in Physics in the Twentieth Century. Popular articles by Geller appear with those by Robert Woodrow Wilson, David Todd Wilkinson, J. Anthony Tyson and Vera Rubin in Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe and with others by Alan Lightman, Robert Kirshner, Vera Rubin, Alan Guth, and James E. Gunn in Bubbles, Voids and Bumps in Time: The New Cosmology. Awards and honors 1989 Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science along with John P. Huchra for "Mapping the Universe" 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship 1990 American Academy of Arts and Science 1992 National Academy of Sciences 1993 Helen Sawyer Hogg Lecture of the Canadian Astronomical Society 1996 Klopsteg Memorial Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers 1997 New York Public Library Library Lion 2003 La Medaille de l'ADION of Nice Observatory 2008 Magellanic Premium by the American Philosophical Society for her research into the groupings of galaxies. 2009 Honorary Degree (D.S.H.C.) from Colby College 2010 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society 2010 James Craig Watson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society 2014 Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the German Astronomical Society 2014 Honorary Degree (D.S.H.C.) from Dartmouth College 2017 Honorary Degree (L.H.C.) from University of Turin References Further reading External links Margaret Geller's homepage at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at the Accademia delle Scienzia di Torino, April 2017 at the University of Turin, April 2017 at the 2013 meeting of the American Physical Society at Chautauqua Caught in the Cosmic Web Research Features Interview Living people 1947 births Discoverers