- 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." It is named in honor of astrophysicistBruno Rossi .Awardees:
*2008 Steve Allen, Pat Henry,Maxim Markevitch , andAlexey Vikhlinin
*2007 Neil Gehrels and the Swift team
*2006 Deepto Chakrabarty ,Tod Strohmayer , andRudy Wijnands
*2005 Stan Woosley
*2004 Harvey Tananbaum andMartin Weisskopf
*2003 Robert Duncan,Christopher Thompson , andChryssa Kouveliotou
*2002 Leon Van Speybroeck
*2001 Andrew Fabian and Yasuo Tanaka
*2000 Peter Meszaros ,Bohdan Paczynski , andMartin Rees
*1999 Jean Swank andHale Bradt
*1998 TheBeppoSAX Team andJan van Paradijs
*1997 Trevor C. Weekes
*1996 Felix Mirabel andLuis F. Rodriguez
*1995 Carl Fichtel
*1994 Gerald Fishman
*1993 Giovanni Bignami andJules Halpern
*1992 Gerald H. Share
*1991 John A. Simpson
*1990 Stirling Colgate
*1989 IMB and Kamioka Experiment teams
*1988 Rashid A. Sunyaev
*1987 Michiel van der Klis
*1986 Allan S. Jacobson
*1985 William R. Forman and Christine JonesExternal links
* [http://www.aas.org/head/rossi/rossi.prize.html HEAD Rossi site]
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