Louis Allamandola

Louis Allamandola is an American space scientist. He is the founder and director of NASA's Astrophysics & Astrochemistry Laboratory, and an Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He studied chemistry at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Awards Allamandola has been a co-author for two papers that won a H. Julian Allen Award, an annual award given to published scientific papers written principally by researchers at Ames. "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and the Unidentified Infrared Emission Bands: Auto Exhaust Along the Milky Way!" won in 1986, and "UV Irradiation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Ices: Production of Alcohols, Quinones, and Ethers" in 2007.