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1985 William R. Forman and Christine Jones

The 1985 Rossi Prize was awarded to Dr. William R. Forman and Dr. Christine Jones for pioneering work in the study of X-ray emission from early type galaxies. The prize consists of a certificate and $500. Drs. Jones and Forman gave a joint invited talk at the Charlottesville Meeting of the AAS. As the nomination letter states,

Their recent work on hot coronae around early-type galaxies represents a very significant contribution to high energy astrophysics. To quote: "Forman and Jones have found that extended X-ray emission is a common feature of early-type galaxies in a variety of environments including cluster outskirts, small groups, and the field. Their very thorough observations and analysis show that gaseous coronae are an ubiquitous feature of bright early-type galaxies, that the coronae have soft X-ray luminosity's ranging from 1039 to 1042 erg s-1, that many of the coronae are resolved with angular extents ~>100 kpc, and that the X-ray emission is almost certainly thermal with a typical temperature of ~107K."

1986 Allan S. Jacobson

HEAD has named astrophysicist Dr. Allan S. (Bud) Jacobson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory the winner of the 1986 Rossi Prize. The prize was awarded for pioneering work on high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy, a new branch of astronomy in which discrete spectral lines resulting from nuclear transitions are observed. Bud made a presentation of his work at the June meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Ames, Iowa.

Dr. Jacobson led the group at JPL that carried out the first high resolution all-sky survey of gamma-ray sources with a germanium spectrometer flown on HEAO-3 in 1979-1980. These observations resulted in the discovery of diffuse emission from the galactic plane in a very narrow gamma-ray line at 1.809 MeV resulting from the decay of radioactive 26Al. This nucleus is most likely produced in explosive nucleosynthesis in novae and supernovae or by expulsion from massive stars. The discovery of 26Al was the first direct evidence that elements of intermediate weight are presently being produced in our galaxy and provides for a determination of the present rate of nucleosynthesis on a galactic scale. The HEAO-3 observations of the 1.809 MeV line were confirmed by independent observations with a spectrometer on the Solar Maximum Mission.

Observations were also made in narrow band 0.511 MeV gamma ray emission, confirming earlier observations of the 0.511 meV line from the direction of galactic center. Both the line and the underlying continuum were shown to be time variable, thereby constraining the source to be a compact object.

One of the letters of nomination says of Jacobson's findings: "I believe these discoveries are all path finding in nature and will have lasting influence on the direction of both experimental and theoretical research in high energy astrophysics."

1987 Michiel van der Klis

The 1987 Rossi Prize was presented to Michiel van der Klis at the Vancouver meeting of the AAS in June 1988. The prize was awarded to Michiel for high discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-ray flux from GX5-1. This object is a low-mass accretion-powered X-ray binary, and the results have led to the discovery of numerous other QPO and have stimulated much work to derive the rotation periods of the neutron stars in these systems.

The prize was presented by HEAD Chair David Helfand, and was followed by a talk given by Dr. van der Klis concerning his work.

1988 Rashid A. Sunyaev

The recipient is Dr. Rashid A. Sunyaev of the Institute for Cosmic Research in Moscow. The award was made to recognize his contributions to understanding cosmic X-ray sources, especially the structure of accretion disks around black holes, the X-ray spectra of compact objects, and the Mir- based discovery of hard X-ray emission from supernovae 1987A. Dr. Sunyaev was invited to deliver a lecture describing his work at the January 1989 meeting in Boston.

1989 Members of the IMB and Kamioka Experiment teams

The 1989 Rossi Prize has been awarded jointly to the members of the Kamiokande and IMB high-energy neutrino experiment teams. The Prize was awarded for the dramatic and mutually confirming detections by these two experiments of a burst of neutrinos from SN1987A.

The observations of neutrinos from SN1987A by the IMB and Kamioka teams opened a new window on the cosmos beyond the solar system and provided the first direct data on the high-energy processes that occur in the centers of collapsing stars. The numbers and energies of the neutrinos observed in the burst and its duration confirmed the main outlines of the theory of stellar collapse and supernovae that has been developed over the past two decades. The measurements by the IMB and Kamioka teams have also provided a new constraint on the mass and other properties of the electron neutrino.

The 1989 Rossi Prize was awarded at a special plenary session during the June meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Prize was accepted on behalf of the entire Kamiokande team by Y. Totsuka, of the Institute of Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo. F. Reines, of the University of California at Irvine, will accept the Prize on behalf of the entire IMB team. These two team spokesmen were invited to describe the history as well as the results of their team's experiments at the plenary session.

The prize-winning members of the Kamiokande team and their institutional affiliations were:

  • K.S. Hirata, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
  • T. Kajita, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
  • M. Koshiba, Tokai University
  • M. Nakahata, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
  • Y. Oyama, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics
  • N. Sato, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
  • A. Suzuki, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics
  • M. Takita, Osaka University
  • Y. Totsuka, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
  • T. Kifune, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
  • T. Suda, Kobe University
  • K. Takahashi, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics
  • T. Tanimori,National Laboratory for High Energy Physics
  • K. Miyano, Niigata University
  • M. Yamada, Niigata University
  • E.W. Beier, University of Pennsylvania
  • L.R. Feldscher, University of Pennsylvania
  • S.B. Kim, University of Pennsylvania
  • A.K. Mann, University of Pennsylvania
  • F.M. Newcomer, University of Pennsylvania
  • R. van Berg, University of Pennsylvania
  • W. Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
  • B.G. Cortez, AT&T Bell Laboratories

The prize-winning members of the IMB team and their institutional affiliations were:

  • Richard M. Bionta, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Geoffrey Blewitt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  • Clyde B. Bratton, Cleveland State University
  • David W. Casper, University of Michigan and Boston University
  • Alessandra Ciocio, Boston University
  • Richard Claus, Boston University
  • Bruce Cortez, AT&T Bell Laboratories
  • Marshall Crouch, Case Western Reserve University
  • Stephen T. Dye, University of Hawaii and Boston University
  • Steven M. Errede, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • G. William Foster, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Wojciech Gajewski, University of California at Irvine
  • Kenneth S. Ganezer, University of California at Irvine
  • Maurice Goldhaber, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Todd J. Haines, University of Maryland
  • Tegid W. Jones, University College London
  • Danuta Kielczewska, University of California at Irvine and Warsaw University
  • William R. Kropp, University of California at Irvine
  • John G. Learned, University of California at Irvine
  • John M. LoSecco, University of Notre Dame
  • James M. Matthews, University of Michigan
  • Richard Miller, University of California at Irvine
  • Manjeet S. Mudan, University College London
  • Hye-Sook Park, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • LeRoy Price, University of California at Irvine
  • Frederick Reines, University of California at Irvine
  • Jonas Schultz, University of California at Irvine
  • Sally C. Seidel, University of Michigan
  • Eric L. Shumard, AT&T Bell Laboratories
  • Daniel A. Sinclair, University of Michigan
  • Henry W. Sobel, University of California at Irvine
  • James L. Stone, Boston University
  • Lawrence R. Sulak, Boston University
  • Robert R. Svoboda, University of California at Irvine
  • Gregory J. Thornton, University of Michigan
  • John C. van der Velde, University of Michigan
  • Craig R. Wuest, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

1990 Stirling A. Colgate

The High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society hereby awards the Bruno Rossi Prize for 1990 to Stirling A. Colgate in recognition of his seminal role in predicting the generation of neutrinos in core collapse and elucidating the importance of the neutrinos for the dynamics and diagnostics of supernova explosions.

1991 John A. Simpson

The 1991 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Prof. John A. Simpson for his seminal contributions to the understanding of cosmic rays, comets, and solar activity, with particular note of his pioneering development of neutron detectors.

1992 Gerald H. Share

The 1992 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Dr. Gerald H. Share for his ingenuity and leadership in using the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer on SMM to study the origin of gamma radiation from supernovae, the Galaxy, solar flares, and gamma-ray bursts.

1993 Giovanni Bignami and Jules Halpern

The 1993 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Drs. Jules Halpern and Giovanni Bignami for their outstanding contributions toward resolving the mystery of Geminga.

1994 Gerald Fishman

The 1994 Rossi Prize winner is Dr. Gerald Fishman "for his signal contributions to the Burst and Transient Source Experiment aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (BATSE) and the continuing puzzle of the Gamma-ray Bursts."

1995 Carl Fichtel

The 1995 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Dr. Carl E. Fichtel, for his key role in the development of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory mission, for his leadership of the EGRET instrument team, and for the discovery by EGRET of the new class of 'Gamma-ray Blazars'.

1996 Felix Mirabel and Luis F. Rodriguez

The 1996 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Felix Mirabel and Luis F. Rodriguez for the seminal discovery of double-sided radio jets from the galactic sources 1E1740.7-2942 and GRS 1758-258 and superluminal motion of radio knots in the galactic source GRS 1915+105.

1997 Trevor C. Weekes

The 1997 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Trevor C. Weekes for his key role in the development of very high energy gamma-ray astronomy and the discovery of TeV gamma radiation from the Crab nebula and Mrk 421.

1998 The BeppoSAX Team and Dr. Jan van Paradijs

The 1998 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to the BeppoSAX Team (represented by Livio Scarsi) and Dr. Jan van Paradijs for the discovery of the X-ray and optical afterglow of gamma-ray bursts, making possible the solution to the 30 year old problem of fixing the distances to the gamma-ray burst sources.

The prize-winning members of the BeppoSAX team and their institutional affiliations were:

  • Livio Scarsi IFCAI/CNR, Palermo and DEAF Univ. of Palermo
  • L.Angelo Antonelli Oss. Astronomico Roma
  • Johan Bleeker SRON, Utrecht
  • Giuliano Boella Physics Dept., Univ.of Milano
  • Bert Brinkman SRON, Utrecht
  • Cristopher R. Butler ASI, Roma
  • Oberto Citterio Oss. Astronomico Brera/Merate
  • Alessandro Coletta BeppoSAX SOC, Roma
  • Giancarlo Conti IFCTR / CNR, Milano
  • Enrico Costa IAS / CNR, Roma
  • Daniele Dal Fiume ITESRE/CNR, Bologna
  • Guido Di Cocco ITESRE/CNR, Bologna
  • Marco Feroci IAS / CNR, Roma
  • Fabrizio Fiore Oss. Astronomico Roma
  • Filippo Frontera ITESRE/CNR, Bologna and Phys. Dept. Univ. Ferrara
  • Paolo Giommi ASI, Roma
  • John Heise SRON, Utrecht
  • Jean in`t Zand SRON, Utrecht
  • Rieks Jager SRON, Utrecht
  • Johan Muller BeppoSAXœ SDC, Roma
  • Luciano Nicastro IFCAI / CNR, Palermo
  • Eliana Palazzi ITESRE / CNR, Bologna
  • Arvind Parmar SSD / ESA Noordwijk
  • G.Cesare Perola Physics Dept., Univ. of Roma 3
  • Luigi Piro IAS / CNR, Roma
  • Bruno Sacco IFCAI /CNR, Palermo
  • Paolo Soffitta IAS / CNR, Roma
  • Brian G. Taylor SSD / ESA, Noordwijk

1999 Jean Swank and Hale Bradt

The 1999 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Drs. Jean Swank and Hale Bradt for their key roles in the development of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer, and for the resulting important discoveries related to high time resolution observations of compact astrophysical objects.

2000 Peter Meszaros, Bohdan Paczynski, and Martin Rees

The 2000 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Peter Meszaros, Bohdan Paczynski, and Martin Rees for the development of theoretical models of Gamma Ray Bursters and their afterglows.

2001 Andrew Fabian and Yasuo Tanaka

The 2001 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Andrew Fabian and Yasuo Tanaka for their discovery, with the ASCA satellite, of broad iron K-lines in active galactic nuclei, which demonstrate the effects of the strong gravitational field characteristic of black holes.

2002 Leon Van Speybroeck

The 2002 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Leon Van Speybroeck for his singular contribution to high energy astrophysics leading to the exquisite image quality produced by the X-ray optics and telescope of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

2003 Robert Duncan, Christopher Thompson, & Chryssa Kouveliotou

The 2003 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Robert Duncan and Christopher Thompson for their prediction, and to Chryssa Kouveliotou for her observational confirmation, of the existence of magnetars: neutron stars with extraordinarily strong magnetic fields.

2004 Harvey Tananbaum and Martin Weisskopf

The 2004 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Harvey Tananbaum and Martin Weisskopf for their vision, dedication, and leadership in the development, testing, and operation of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

2005 Stan Woosley

The 2005 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Stan Woosley for his contributions to the theory of nucleosynthesis, supernova mechanisms and, in particular, the collapsar model of long gamma-ray bursts.

2006 Tod Strohmayer, Deepto Chakrabarty, and Rudy Wijnands

The 2006 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Tod Strohmayer, Deepto Chakrabarty, and Rudy Wijnands for their pioneering research which revealed millisecond spin periods and established the powerful diagnostic tool of kilohertz intensity oscillations in accreting neutron star binary systems.

2007 Neil Gehrels and the Swift Team

The 2007 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Neil Gehrels and the Swift Team for major advances in the scientific understanding of gamma-ray bursts. These include groundbreaking observations to determine precise location of short gamma-ray bursts, and the discovery of enormously bright X-ray flares in the early afterglows.

2008 Steven Allen, J. Patrick Henry, Maxim Markevitch, Alexey Vikhlinin

The 2008 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Steven Allen, J. Patrick Henry, Maxim Markevitch, and Alexey Vikhlinin for their pioneering work on the use of x-ray observations to study the physics and evolution of clusters of galaxies, and on the use of clusters as cosmological probes.

2009 Charles D. Bailyn, Jeffrey E. McClintock and Ronald A. Remillard

The 2009 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Charles D. Bailyn, Jeffrey E. McClintock and Ronald A. Remillard for their measurement of the masses of Galactic black holes.

2010 Felix A. Aharonian, Werner Hofman, Heinrich J. Voelk and the H.E.S.S. team

The 2010 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of theAmerican Astronomical Society is awarded to Felix A. Aharonian, Werner Hofman, Heinrich J. Voelk and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) team for their outstanding contributions to imaging of very high-energy (TeV) gamma rays with H.E.S.S. Their work addressed fundamental questions related to particle acceleration and the origin of cosmic rays through the study of supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae and nearby active galactic nuclei.

2011 Bill Atwood, Peter Michelson, and the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope LAT team

The 2011 Rossi Prize is awarded to Bill Atwood, Peter Michelson, and the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope LAT 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.

2012 Marco Tavani and the AGILE team

The 2012 Rossi Prize has been awarded to astrophysicist Marco Tavani and the AGILE team for the discovery of gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula. Long thought to be a steady source of energy - from optical to gamma rays - this finding has changed the understanding of this very important cosmic object.

2013 Alice K. Harding and Roger W. Romani

The High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) is awarding its Bruno Rossi Prize to Alice K. Harding (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Roger W. Romani (Stanford University) for establishing a theoretical framework for understanding gamma-ray pulsars. These unusual objects, the collapsed remnants of massive stars that have exploded as supernovae, are rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit gamma-ray photons and sometimes (but not always) radio photons. Work by Harding and Romani has helped elucidate that the radiation at different wavelengths comes from different regions of the pulsar that differences between pulsars can result from different orientations toward Earth and/or from different angles between the stars' spin and magnetic axes.

The scientists awarded the 2014 Rossi Prize were Professor Douglas Finkbeiner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Professor Tracy Slatyer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Meng Su, a joint Einstein/Pappalardo fellow of physics at MIT and the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research for their discovery, in gamma rays, of the large unanticipated Galactic structure now called the "Fermi Bubbles." From end to end, Fermi bubbles extend 50,000 light years, or roughly half of the Milky Way's diameter. These structures may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our Galaxy.

2015 Fiona Harrison

The 2015 Rossi Prize was awarded to Professor Fiona Harrison of the California Institute of Technology for her groundbreaking work on supernova remnants, neutron stars, and black holes enabled by NuSTAR, the first satellite to focus X-rays above 10 keV. Her assembly and leadership of the extraordinary NuSTAR team has opened a new window on the Universe.

2016 Niel Brandt

The 2016 Rossi Prize was awarded to Professor Niel Brandt of The Pennsylvania State University, who led the effort to obtain the deepest Chandra fields, enabling the most sensitive cosmological X-ray surveys to date. His work traces the accretion history of SMBH and their coevolution with host galaxies across cosmic time.

2017 Gabriela Gonzalez and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

The 2017 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to Dr. Gabriela González and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "for the first direct detections of gravitational waves, for the discovery of merging black hole binaries, and for beginning the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy." Please see the press release for more information.

2018 Colleen Wilson-Hodge and the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team

The 2018 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to Dr.Colleen Wilson-Hodge and the Fermi GBM Team, "for the discovery of Gamma-rays coincident with a neutron-star merger gravitational wave event. This confirmed that short gamma-ray bursts are produced by binary neutron-star mergers and enabled a global multi-wavelength follow-up campaign." Please see the HEAD Press Release for more information.

2019 Brian Metzger and Dan Kasen

The 2019 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to Brian Metzger and Daniel Kasen, "for their theoretical predictions ofelectromagnetic emission from radioactive nuclei produced in neutron star mergers. These predictions were confirmed by observations of the 2017 neutron star merger gravitational wave event, providing the first compelling evidence for the astrophysical site of rapid neutron capture nucleosynthesis." Please see the HEAD Press Release for more information.

2020 Sheperd Doeleman and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Team

The 2020 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to Sheperd Doeleman and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Team for "their landmark image and analysis of the first shadow of a black hole. Please see the HEAD Press Release for more information.

2021 Francis Halzen and the IceCube Collaboration

The 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to Francis Halzen and the IceCube Collaboration "for the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux of astrophysical origin". Please see the Press Release for more information.

2022 Keith Gendreau, Zaven Arzoumanian and the NICER team

The 2022 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to Keith Gendreau, Zaven Arzoumanian and the NICER team "for development of the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and the revolutionary insights it is providing about the extreme environments of neutron stars and black holes, including the first precise and reliable measurement of a pulsar’s mass and radius from detailed modeling of its pulsed waveform." Please see the HEAD Press Release for more information.  The NICER team is Diego Altamirano (U. Southampton), Lorella Angelini (GSFC), Zaven Arzoumanian (NASA/GSFC), Michiel Baubock (U. Arizona), Peter Becker (GMU), Anna Bilous (U. Amsterdam), Slavko Bogdanov (Columbia U.), Esra Bulbul (MPE), Peter Bult (NASA/GSFC), Ed Cackett (Wayne State U.), Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT), Jerome Chenevez (DTU), Devarshi Choudhury (U. Amsterdam), Joel Coley (Howard U.) Mike Corcoran (CUA & NASA/GSFC), Julia Deneva (GMU), Alex Dittman (UMd), John Doty (Noqsi Aerospace Ltd.), Steve Drake (USRA & NASA/GSFC), Steve Eikenberry (UCF), Teruaki Enoto (Riken), Andrew Fabian (Cambridge), Elizabeth Ferrara (NASA/GSFC), Keith Gendreau (NASA/GSFC), Sebastien Guillot (U. Toulouse), Tolga Guver (Istanbul U.), Kenji Hamaguchi (UMBC & NASA/GSFC), Alice Harding (NASA/GSFC), Jason Hessels (U. of Amsterdam), Wynn Ho (Haverford) , Jeroen Homan (Eureka Scientific), Wataru Iwakiri (Chuo U.), Keith Jahoda (NASA/GSFC), Gaurava Jaisawal (U. Denmark), Peter Jenke (UAH), Erin Kara (MIT), Vicky Kaspi (McGill U.), Laurens Keek (cosine B. V.), Matthew Kerr (NRL), Fred Lamb (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), James Lattimer (SUNY Stony Brook), Natalia Lewandowska (Haverford), Bennett Link (MSU), Mike Loewenstein (UMCP & NASA/GSFC), Andrea Lommen (Haverford), Renee Ludlam (CalTech), Simin Mahmoodifar (NASA/GSFC), Walid Majid (JPL), Christian Malacaria (USRA & NASA/MSFC), Craig Markwardt (NASA/GSFC), Cole Miller (UMCP), Jon Miller (U. Michigan), Sharon Morsink (U. Alberta), Joey Neilsen (Villanova), Melania Nynka (MIT), Takashi Okajima (NASA/GSFC), Feryal Ozel (U. Arizona), Dheeraj Pasham (MIT), Katja Pottschmidt (UMBC & NASA/GSFC), Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (U. New Hampshire), Gregory Prigozhin (MIT), Dimitrios Psaltis (U. Arizona), Geert Raaijmakers (U. of Amsterdam), Scott Ransom (NRAO), Paul Ray (NRL), Ron Remillard (MIT), Thomas Riley (U. Amsterdam), Tuomo Salmi (U. Amsterdam), Jack Steiner (MIT), Abigail Stevens (U. Michigan), Tod Strohmayer (NASA/GSFC), Andrei Timokhin (U. of Zielona Gora), Francesco Tombesi (UMCP & NASA/GSFC), Phil Uttley (U. Amsterdam), Christo Venter (North-West U.), Serena Vinciguerra (U. Amsterdam), Anna Watts (U. Amsterdam), Colleen Wilson-Hodge (NASA/MSFC), Zoawar Wadiasingh (NASA/GSFC & NPP) Mike Wolff (NRL), Kent Wood (NRL), George Younes (NASA/GSFC & NPP).  Please see the Press Release for more information.

2023 Anatoly Spitkovsky

The 2023 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to Anatoly Spitkovsky "for his pioneering numerical simulations of collisionless shocks, particle acceleration by shocks and magnetic reconnection, and pulsar magnetospheres and their electromagnetic radiation."