Bruno Pontecorvo Prize

The Bruno Pontecorvo Prize (Russian: Премия имени Бруно Понтекорво) is an award for elementary particle physics, established in 1995 by the JINR in Dubna to commemorate Bruno Pontecorvo. The prize is mainly given for neutrino physics, which was Pontecorvo's principal research field, and usually to a single scientist. It is offered internationally every year.

Winners

Year Name Institution Recognition Notes
2019 Fabiola Gianotti CERN for the leading contribution to the experimental studies of fundamental interactions and discovery of the Higgs boson.
2018 Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin, Madison for significant contribution to the IceCube detector construction and experimental discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos
2017 Gianluigi Fogli [Wikidata] University of Bari and INFN, Bari, Italy for their pioneering contribution to the development of global analysis of neutrino oscillation data from different experiments
Eligio Lisi [Wikidata] INFN, Bari, Italy
2016 Wang Yifang IHEP, Beijing, China for his contribution to the Daya Bay experiment

Soo-Bong Kim Seoul National University, South Korea for his contribution to the RENO experiment

Kōichirō Nishikawa KEK, Tsukuba, Japan for his contribution to the T2K experiment
2015 Gianpaolo Bellini INFN, Frascati, Italy and University of Milan, Italy for his outstanding contribution to the development of detection methods for low-energy neutrinos, their realization in the Borexino detector, and the important results on solar and geoneutrinos provided by the experiment

2014 Grigory V. Domogatsky [de; ru] INR, Moscow, Russia for his outstanding contribution to the development of neutrino astronomy and the astrophysics of high-energy neutrinos; in particular, his pioneering work to develop a method for detecting high-energy neutrinos using an underwater detector and create an operational facility at the Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope

2013 Luciano Maiani University of Rome, Italy for outstanding contributions to the physics of elemental particles, in particular to the physics of weak interactions and neutrinos

2012 Ettore Fiorini University of Milan, Italy for his outstanding contribution to the search for neutrino-free double beta decay

2011 Stanley Wojcicki Fermilab, IL and Stanford University, CA for his outstanding contribution to the creation of the MINOS detector, for new results obtained in the field of particle physics and, especially, in the field of neutrino oscillations
2010 Yōichirō Suzuki Kamioka Observatory, Japan, and IPMU, Japan for his contributions to the detection of atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillations in the Super Kamiokande collaboration
Sergey Petcov [de] SISSA, Trieste, and INFN, Trieste, Italy for research on the understanding of the interactions of neutrinos with matter and the properties of Majorana neutrinos

2009 Alexander D. Dolgov ITEP, Moscow, Russia for fundamental contributions to the understanding of neutrino oscillations and neutrino kinetics in cosmology

Henry W. Sobel [de] University of California, Irvine for important contributions to the experimental study of neutrino oscillations

2008 Valery Rubakov INR, Moscow, Russia for his essential contributions to the study of close interrelation among particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology, and to the elaboration of a fundamentally new theory of physical space

2007 Antonino Zichichi University of Bologna/INFN, Italy, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland for his fundamental contributions to the creation of the largest underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory and to the construction of large-scale facilities for experimental studies of solar and accelerator neutrinos

2006 Atsuto Suzuki KEK, Tsukuba, Japan for the discovery of reactor antineutrino oscillations and detection of geoantineutrinos in the KamLAND experiment

2005 Alexei Y. Smirnov
Stanislav P. Mikheyev
Lincoln Wolfenstein
ICTP, Trieste, Italy
INR, Moscow, Russia
Carnegie Mellon University, PA
for the prediction and study of matter effects on neutrino oscillations, known as the Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect

2004 Arthur B. McDonald Queen's University, Kingston, Canada for the evidence of solar neutrino oscillations in the SNO experiment at Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Canada

2003 Yōji Totsuka KEK, Tsukuba, Japan for his outstanding contribution to the discovery of atmospheric muon-neutrino oscillations

2002 Samoil Mihelevich Bilenky [de] JINR, Dubna, Russia for theoretical investigations of neutrino oscillations

2001 Nicholas Samios Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY for contributions both as a researcher and as a scientific administrator; in particular, for the discovery of the phi meson and the omega minus hyperon

2000 Vladimir Nikolaievich Gavrin [de; ru] INR, Moscow, Russia for their outstanding contributions to solar neutrino research using the gallium germanium method at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory

Georgiy Zatsepin INR, Moscow, Russia
1999 Raymond Davis Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY for his outstanding achievements in developing the chlorine-argon method for solar neutrino detection

1998 Vladimir M. Lobashev INR, Moscow, Russia for contributions to the physics of weak interaction

1997 Klaus Winter CERN, Geneva, Switzerland for his experimental research in the field of neutrino physics at accelerators
1996 Lev Okun ITEP, Moscow, Russia for elementary particle physics
Semyon Gershtein Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology for theoretical research in the field of electroweak interactions
1995 Ugo Amaldi CERN, Geneva, Switzerland for his significant contribution to studies in the physics of weak interactions

See also

  • List of physics awards

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