Bruno Rossi Prize
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 "for pioneering work in the study of X-ray emission from early type galaxies". It has since been awarded 26 times. The prize was most recently 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".
[edit] List of winners
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- 1985 William R. Forman and Christine Jones
- 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. Rodriguez
- 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
- 2003 Robert Duncan, Christopher Thompson, and Chryssa Kouveliotou
- 2004 Harvey Tananbaum and Martin Weisskopf
- 2005 Stan Woosley
- 2006 Deepto Chakrabarty, Tod Strohmayer, and Rudy Wijnands
- 2007 Neil Gehrels and the Swift team
- 2008 Steve Allen, Pat Henry, Maxim Markevitch, and Alexey Vikhlinin
- 2009 Charles D. Bailyn, Jeffrey E. McClintock, and Ronald A. Remillard
- 2010 Felix A. Aharonian, Werner Hofman, Heinrich J. Voelk and the H.E.S.S. team
- 2011 William B. Atwood, Peter Michelson and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope LAT team
- 2012 Marco Tavani and the AGILE Team
[edit] References
- ^ "Rossi prize". High Energy Astrophysics Division, American Astronomical Society. http://www.aas.org/head/rossi/rossi.prize.html. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
