Conway Leovy, Ph. D., was a professor emeritus

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 of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysics at the University of Washington

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, RAND

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 author, former University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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 Trustee, Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

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, and American

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 political activist. He was awarded the NASA

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 Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

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 and was a co-recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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 (AAAS) Newcomb Cleveland Prize

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. In 2000 he won the The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize

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, awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of planetary science.