The American Astronomical Society has awarded the 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize to Francis Halzen and the IceCube Collaboration "for the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux of astrophysical origin."
We are very proud of this
award, which reflects on both the construction of IceCube and on the
data analysis (plus help from Mother Nature, for making the flux large
enough to be detectable). The announcement is posted at
https://head.aas.org/rossi/rossi.recip.html#2021_ic
and there is an IceCube press release at
The prize is named after the Italian physicist Bruno Rossi,who was one of the pioneers of cosmic-ray physics. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of coincidence circuits, which he used to show that large groups of cosmic-ray particles reached the ground simultaneously, i. e. that very high-energy cosmic-rays produce air showers consisting of large numbers of particles.
