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DESY News: IceCube collaboration awarded 2021 Rossi Prize
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IceCube collaboration awarded 2021 Rossi Prize
The 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to the international collaboration running the neutrino telescope IceCube in Antarctica and its principal investigator Francis Halzen, the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The award recognises Halzen and IceCube “for the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux of astrophysical origin,” as the committee announced at the 237th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), which is currently being held virtually. DESY is the largest European Ice Cube partner.
The IceCube Collaboration is made up of over 300 researchers from 53 institutions in 12 countries. The international group maintains and operates the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole instrumented with optical sensors that can detect signals from high-energy neutrinos from outer space. IceCube’s first observations of high-energy cosmic neutrinos garnered the 2013 Physics World Breakthrough of the Year Award.
The Bruno Rossi Prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the AAS. Named after Italian experimental physicist Bruno Rossi – who made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays, launched the field of X-ray astronomy, and discovered the first cosmic X-ray source, SCO X-1 – the Rossi Prize is awarded “for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work.”
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