On May 31, 2021, the Borexino Collaboration was awarded the European Physical Society 2021 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize “for their ground-breaking observation of solar neutrinos from the proton-proton and carbon-nitrogen-oxygen chains that provided unique and comprehensive tests of the sun as a nuclear fusion engine.” The Cocconi prize, awarded every other year since 2013, goes to researchers or experimental collaborations who have made “an outstanding contribution to particle astrophysics and cosmology in the last fifteen years, in an experimental, theoretical or technological area.”
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