Congratulations to Prof. Yvonne Elsworth, who has been awarded the 2011 Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics. This award is in recognition of Yvonne’s achievements in the development of Helioseismology into a unique quantitative tool probing the deep interior of the Sun, illuminating stellar structure and evolution and the solar neutrino problem, and more recently for her work on red giant stars.

More details may be found at:

http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/payne_gaposchkin-/medallists/page_51323.html