Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation
The Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation is awarded by the American Astronomical Society to an individual for the design, invention or significant improvement of instrumentation leading to advances in astronomy. It is named after physicist Joseph Weber. The awards tend to be for a career of instrument development rather than a single specific device; the lists of inventions below are taken from press releases from the recipients' institutions.
Weber Award winners
Source:| Year | Recipient | Inventions |
| 2002 | James E. Gunn | CCDs in astronomy: WFPC on Hubble, Sloan Digital Sky Survey,... |
| 2003 | Frank J. Low | IR detection by bolometer arrays |
| 2004 | Thomas G. Phillips | Sub-millimetre and terahertz instrumentation |
| 2005 | Stephen Shectman | Active optics |
| 2006 | Roger Angel | Adaptive optics for infra-red spectroscopy |
| 2007 | Harvey Moseley | Microshutter arrays, X-ray microcalorimeter |
| 2008 | James R. Houck | Spectrographs for infrared astronomy |
| 2009 | Peter Serlemitsos | X-ray detector and telescope designs |
| 2010 | Donald N. B. Hall | Low noise detectors for observational infrared astronomy |
| 2011 | Edward S. Cheng | Several key instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope |
| 2012 | Thijs de Graauw | Short Wavelength Spectrometer on ISO and the Heterodyne Instrument For the Infrared on Herschel |
| 2013 | Keith Matthews | Infrared astronomical instrumentation |
| 2014 | Sander Weinreb | Digital auto-correlation spectrometers and cryogenic low-noise amplifiers and mixers |
| 2015 | Claire E. Max | Adaptive optics with sodium laser guide stars |
| 2016 | James J. Bock | Low noise “spider web” bolometers |
| 2017 | Ian S. McLean | Infrared sensor arrays |
| 2018 | Rainer Weiss | Interferometric gravitational wave detector |
| 2019 | John D. Monnier |