# Bruno Pontecorvo Prize

The Bruno Pontecorvo Prize (Russian: Премия имени Бруно Понтекорво) is an award for elementary particle physics, established in 1995 by the JINR in Dubna to commemorate Bruno Pontecorvo. 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

| Year | Name | Institution | Recognition | Notes |
| 2019 | Fabiola Gianotti | CERN | for the leading contribution to the experimental studies of fundamental interactions and discovery of the Higgs boson. | |
| 2018 | Francis Halzen | University of Wisconsin, Madison | for significant contribution to the IceCube detector construction and experimental discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos | |
| 2017 | Gianluigi Fogli [Wikidata] | University of Bari and INFN, Bari, Italy | for their pioneering contribution to the development of global analysis of neutrino oscillation data from different experiments | |
| 2017 | Eligio Lisi [Wikidata] | INFN, Bari, Italy | for their pioneering contribution to the development of global analysis of neutrino oscillation data from different experiments | |
| 2016 | Wang Yifang | IHEP, Beijing, China | for his contribution to the Daya Bay experiment | |
| 2016 | Soo-Bong Kim | Seoul National University, South Korea | for his contribution to the RENO experiment | [5] [7][6] |
| 2016 | Kōichirō Nishikawa | KEK, Tsukuba, Japan | for his contribution to the T2K experiment | |
| 2015 | Gianpaolo Bellini [de] | INFN, Frascati, Italy and University of Milan, Italy | for his outstanding contribution to the development of detection methods for low-energy neutrinos, their realization in the Borexino detector, and the important results on solar and geoneutrinos provided by the experiment | |
| 2014 | Grigory V. Domogatsky [de; ru] | INR, Moscow, Russia | for his outstanding contribution to the development of neutrino astronomy and the astrophysics of high-energy neutrinos; in particular, his pioneering work to develop a method for detecting high-energy neutrinos using an underwater detector and create an operational facility at the Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope | |
| 2013 | Luciano Maiani | University of Rome, Italy | for outstanding contributions to the physics of elemental particles, in particular to the physics of weak interactions and neutrinos | |
| 2012 | Ettore Fiorini | University of Milan, Italy | for his outstanding contribution to the search for neutrino-free double beta decay | |
| 2011 | Stanley Wojcicki | Fermilab, IL and Stanford University, CA | for his outstanding contribution to the creation of the MINOS detector, for new results obtained in the field of particle physics and, especially, in the field of neutrino oscillations | |
| 2010 | Yōichirō Suzuki | Kamioka Observatory, Japan, and IPMU, Japan | for his contributions to the detection of atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillations in the Super Kamiokande collaboration | |
| 2010 | Sergey Petcov [de] | SISSA, Trieste, and INFN, Trieste, Italy | for research on the understanding of the interactions of neutrinos with matter and the properties of Majorana neutrinos | |
| 2009 | Alexander D. Dolgov | ITEP, Moscow, Russia | for fundamental contributions to the understanding of neutrino oscillations and neutrino kinetics in cosmology | |
| 2009 | Henry W. Sobel [de] | University of California, Irvine | for important contributions to the experimental study of neutrino oscillations | |
| 2008 | Valery Rubakov | INR, Moscow, Russia | for his essential contributions to the study of close interrelation among particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology, and to the elaboration of a fundamentally new theory of physical space | |
| 2007 | Antonino Zichichi | University of Bologna/INFN, Italy, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland | for his fundamental contributions to the creation of the largest underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory and to the construction of large-scale facilities for experimental studies of solar and accelerator neutrinos | |
| 2006 | Atsuto Suzuki | KEK, Tsukuba, Japan | for the discovery of reactor antineutrino oscillations and detection of geoantineutrinos in the KamLAND experiment | |
| 2005 | Alexei Y. Smirnov Stanislav P. Mikheyev Lincoln Wolfenstein | ICTP, Trieste, Italy INR, Moscow, Russia Carnegie Mellon University, PA | for the prediction and study of matter effects on neutrino oscillations, known as the Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect | |
| 2004 | Arthur B. McDonald | Queen's University, Kingston, Canada | for the evidence of solar neutrino oscillations in the SNO experiment at Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Canada | |
| 2003 | Yōji Totsuka | KEK, Tsukuba, Japan | for his outstanding contribution to the discovery of atmospheric muon-neutrino oscillations | |
| 2002 | Samoil Mihelevich Bilenky [de] | JINR, Dubna, Russia | for theoretical investigations of neutrino oscillations | |
| 2001 | Nicholas Samios | Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY | for contributions both as a researcher and as a scientific administrator; in particular, for the discovery of the phi meson and the omega minus hyperon | |
| 2000 | Vladimir Nikolaievich Gavrin [de; ru] | INR, Moscow, Russia | for their outstanding contributions to solar neutrino research using the gallium germanium method at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory | |
| 2000 | Georgiy Zatsepin | INR, Moscow, Russia | for their outstanding contributions to solar neutrino research using the gallium germanium method at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory | |
| 1999 | Raymond Davis | Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY | for his outstanding achievements in developing the chlorine-argon method for solar neutrino detection | |
| 1998 | Vladimir M. Lobashev | INR, Moscow, Russia | for contributions to the physics of weak interaction | |
| 1997 | Klaus Winter | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland | for his experimental research in the field of neutrino physics at accelerators | |
| 1996 | Lev Okun | ITEP, Moscow, Russia | for elementary particle physics | |
| 1996 | Semyon Gershtein | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | for theoretical research in the field of electroweak interactions | |
| 1995 | Ugo Amaldi | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland | for his significant contribution to studies in the physics of weak interactions | |