The Bruno Pontecorvo Prize () is an award for elementary particle physics, established in 1995 by the
JINR in
Dubna
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to commemorate
Bruno Pontecorvo
Bruno Pontecorvo (; , ''Bruno Maksimovich Pontecorvo''; 22 August 1913 – 24 September 1993) was an Italian–Russian nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially o ...
.
The prize is mainly given for neutrino physics, which was Pontecorvo's principal research field, and usually to a single scientist. It is offered internationally every year.
Winners
See also
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List of physics awards
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Particle physics
Physics awards
Russian science and technology awards