Winner of the 2011 IBA Prize announced
The winner of the 2011 IBA-Europhysics Prize has been announced by the EPS Nuclear Physics Division. The awards were presented at the first International Conference on Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science, which took place between 29 May and 3 June in Leuven, Belgium.
The 2011 IBA Prize for Applied Nuclear Science and Nuclear Methods in Medicine is awarded to Elisabetta Boaretto, in recognition of her significant contribution to the development of precise quality controlled radiocarbon dating and the application of accelerator mass spectrometry techniques to the field of archaeology.
Boaretto works for both the Radiocarbon Dating and Cosmogenic Isotopes Lab of Bar Ilan University, Israel; and also the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
The prize – which is awarded every two years – consists of a Diploma of the EPS and 5,000 Euros; with the award funded by Ion Beam Applications, the Belgium company who lends their name to the prize.
More information on prize can be found the EPS Nuclear Physics Division website.
