2016 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science presented to William J. Borucki

On April 21, 2016, The Franklin Institute presented the 2016 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science to William J. Borucki of NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, USA for his vision and perseverance in developing techniques for measuring the brightness of stars to unprecedented accuracy, and for providing the scientific leadership for NASA's Kepler space mission, which discovered thousands of planetary systems and demonstrated that Earth-sized exoplanets are as common as stars.