FELIX AHARONIAN AWARDED ROSSI PRIZE OF AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Noyan Tapan
Jan 18, 2010

YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. Felix Aharonian – a foreign member
of the RA National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Head of the High Energy
Astrophysics Group of the Max Planck Institute – has been awarded the
American Astronomical Society’s 2010 Rossi prize for his outstanding
contribution to imaging TeV astronomy, which addressed fundamental
questions related to particle acceleration and the origin of the
Cosmic Rays through the study of supernova remnants and nearby active
galactic nuclei.

Along with Felix Aharonian, Werner Hoffmann, Heinz Voelk and the HESS
collaboration received this award, the Information and Analytical
Center of the RA NAS reported.