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Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize

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The Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize is awarded every two years, jointly by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). The award, established in 2010 in honor of Homi J. Bhabha, consists of a certificate, a medal, an award of 250,000 Indian rupees, and an invitation to visit and to give public lectures at the TIFR in Mumbai and the Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty. The award ceremony take place at the biennial International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC). The recipient is "an active scientist who has made distinguished contributions in the field of high-energy cosmic-ray physics and astroparticle physics over an extended academic career."[1] The inaugural award was made in 2011 to Sir Arnold Wolfendale.[2]

There are several different awards named in honor of the physicist Homi J. Bhabha — for example, the Homi Bhabha Medal (in five different categories) awarded by the Nuclear Fuel Complex of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India.[3]

Recipients

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Year Recipient Institution
2011 Sir Arnold Wolfendale Durham University, Durham, England, UK
2013 Heinz Völk [de] Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
2015 Thomas K. Gaisser Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, USA
2017 Subir Sarkar University of Oxford, UK & Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Takaaki Kajita Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo, Japan
2021 Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
2023 Samuel C. C. Ting Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize".
  2. ^ "Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize, C4: Awards - IUPAP: The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics".
  3. ^ "Homi Bhabha Medal Winners". Nuclear Fuel Complex, Government of India.