Sciences Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation. Kirshner was a panelist for the 2000 and 2010 Decadal Reviews of Astronomy. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society; a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and an Inaugural Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. Awards 2007: Gruber Prize in Cosmology (co-recipient with High-Z Supernova Search Team) 2011: Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics from the American Institute of Physics 2014: James Craig Watson Medal 2015: Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as member of the High-Z Supernova Search Team, shared with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess. 2015: Wolf Prize in Physics 2020: Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. Private life In 1999, Kirshner married the novelist and filmmaker Jayne Loader. From 2001–2007, they were the Masters of Quincy House, one of Harvard's 12 undergraduate houses. He is the father of the television writer/producer, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, and Matthew Kirshner, the CFO/GM of Format Entertainment in Los Angeles. See also J. Ward Moody References External links Robert Kirshner's Home Page at Harvard 1949 births Living people 20th-century American Jews American astronomers Harvard College alumni University of Michigan faculty Harvard University faculty California Institute of Technology alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Winners of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics Sloan Research Fellows Fellows of the American Astronomical Society Fellows of the American Physical Society Wolf Prize in Physics laureates 21st-century American Jews