 
																									Kazunori Akiyama
															
						Haystack’s Kazunori Akiyama awarded two top prizes in Japan
March 2, 2020
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																					Kazunori Akiyama
																											
							
															Akiyama has been awarded two prestigious awards for his work on the Event Horizon Telescope.
													Haystack’s Kazunori Akiyama (a National Radio Astronomy Observatory [NRAO] Jansky Fellow) has been awarded the prestigious Young Scientists’ Prize from Japan’s MEXT ministry.
Akiyama also recently received the 2020 Young Astronomer Award from the Astronomical Society of Japan (ASJ).