Leonard Medal Acceptance.

The JSC curation branch has been an amazing place to work, for too many reasons to adequately detail here, but one of the major reasons is the caliber of people there who care for the labs and samples. Dave McKay was very good friends with Hiroshi Takeda, and Masamichi Miyamoto and Akira Tsuchiyama were postdocs at JSC when I arrived. Two JSC curation scientists left NASA to work at other labs (something that has not happened since), and there was an immediate need in the curation office for someone who knew about cosmic dust. [Extracted from the article]