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The Bruno Rossi Prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics division of the
American Astronomical Society "for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work".
[1] Named after astrophysicist
Bruno Rossi , the prize is awarded with a certificate and a gift of USD $500, and was first awarded in 1985 to
William R. Forman and
Christine Jones Forman "for pioneering work in the study of X-ray emission from early type galaxies". It has been awarded 40 times. In 2010, the prize was awarded to
William B. Atwood ,
Peter Michelson and the
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope team "for enabling, through the development of the Large Area Telescope, new insights into neutron stars, supernova remnants, cosmic rays, binary systems, active galactic nuclei, and gamma-ray bursts". In 2013, the prize was awarded to
Roger W. Romani of
Leland Stanford Junior University and
Alice Harding of
Goddard Space Flight Center for their work in developing the theoretical framework underpinning the many exciting pulsar results from
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope .
List of winners
1985
William R. Forman and
Christine Jones Forman
1986
Allan S. Jacobson
1987
Michiel van der Klis
1988
Rashid A. Sunyaev
1989
IMB and
Kamioka Experiment teams
1990
Stirling Colgate
1991
John A. Simpson
1992
Gerald H. Share
1993
Giovanni Bignami and
Jules Halpern
1994
Gerald J. Fishman
1995
Carl Fichtel
1996
Felix Mirabel and
Luis F. Rodríguez
1997
Trevor C. Weekes
1998 The
BeppoSAX Team and
Jan van Paradijs
1999
Jean Swank and
Hale Bradt
2000
Peter Meszaros ,
Bohdan Paczyński , and
Martin Rees
2001
Andrew Fabian and
Yasuo Tanaka
2002
Leon Van Speybroeck
[2]
2003
Robert Duncan ,
Christopher Thompson , and
Chryssa Kouveliotou
2004
Harvey Tananbaum and
Martin C. Weisskopf
2005
Stan Woosley
2006
Deepto Chakrabarty ,
Tod Strohmayer , and
Rudy Wijnands
[3]
2007
Neil Gehrels and the
Swift team
2008
Steve Allen ,
[4]
Pat Henry ,
Maxim Markevitch , and
Alexey Vikhlinin
2009
Charles D. Bailyn ,
Jeffrey E. McClintock , and
Ronald A. Remillard
2010
Felix A. Aharonian ,
Werner Hofmann ,
Heinrich J. Voelk and the
H.E.S.S. team
[5]
2011
William B. Atwood ,
Peter Michelson and the
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope LAT team
[6]
2012
Marco Tavani and the
AGILE Team
2013
Roger W. Romani and
Alice Harding
2014
Douglas P. Finkbeiner ,
Tracy R. Slatyer and
Meng Su for their discovery of the Fermi Bubbles.
[7]
2015
Fiona A. Harrison
[8]
2016
Niel Brandt
[9]
2017
Gabriela González and the
LIGO team
[10]
2018 Colleen Wilson-Hodge and the
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope GBM team
[11]
2019 Brian Metzger and Daniel Kasen
[12]
2020
Sheperd Doeleman and
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
[13]
2021
Francis Halzen and the
IceCube collaboration
2022
Keith Gendreau ,
Zaven Arzoumanian and the team of the
NICER
2023
Anatoly Spitkovsky
2024
Martin Weisskopf ,
Paolo Soffitta , and the
IXPE team
[14]
See also
References
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"Chandra telescope designer wins 2002 Rossi Prize" . January 27, 2002.
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"UvA astronomer Rudy Wijnands wins Bruno Rossi prize" . January 26, 2006. Archived from
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"KIPAC Researcher Awarded Rossi Prize" . January 2, 2008.
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"HESS Astrophysicists Share Rossi Prize" . February 1, 2010.
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"Physicist Bill Atwood shares Rossi Prize for work on gamma-ray telescope" . January 21, 2011.
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"Meng Su wins 2014 Bruno Rossi Prize (along with Tracy Slatyer, MIT, and Douglas Finkbeiner, CfA)" . January 28, 2014. Archived from
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"Fiona Harrison Awarded High-Energy Astrophysics Prize" . January 16, 2016.
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"Top high-energy astrophysics prize awarded to Niel Brandt" . January 15, 2016. Archived from
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"AAS Announces Recipients of 2017 Prizes and Awards" .
American Astronomical Society . January 9, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
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"2018 Bruno Rossi Prize: Top High-Energy Prize Awarded to Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team" . American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 13 February 2017 .
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"HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION ANNOUNCES 2019 AWARD WINNERS" . High Energy Astrophysics Division of American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 6 October 2019 .
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"The 2020 Rossi Prize Press Release" . AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division. 2020-01-28. Retrieved 2021-09-06 .
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"IXPE: Home" . ixpe.msfc.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2024-01-15 .