Six different awards and prizes will be presented to outstanding scientists at the opening ceremony of ICRC2025.
- IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prizes (2 prizes)
- O’Ceallaigh Medal
- Bhabha Award
- Shakti Duggal Award
- Yodh Prize
Lists of past winners can be found on the IUPAP C4 website. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2025. Self-nominations will not be considered.
IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prizes (2 prizes)
The IUPAP Young Scientist Award was established in 2006 by IUPAP for the recognition of research by young scientists with a maximum of 8 years research experience following a PhD (excluding career interruptions). This award has been renamed recently to “IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize”. Any scientist working in a field of interest for the C4 Commission is eligible for these prizes. The selection will be made by the IUPAP C4 Commission. Two Prizes, each consisting of a certificate, a medal and a cheque for €1000, will be announced at the opening ceremony of the 39th ICRC on July 15, 2025.
Nominators are encouraged to consider nominating women and persons from minority backgrounds in line with the IUPAP objective of a better reflection of geographic and gender balance.
Nominations should include a Curriculum Vitae and a publication list of the nominee and a letter of support. The sponsor may also wish to ask two co-sponsors to send separate supporting letters.
Nominations should be sent to:
Prof. Ralph Engel
Chair of the IUPAP C4 Commission (Astroparticle Physics)
E-mail: Ralph Engel
O’Ceallaigh Medal
The O’Ceallaigh Medal was established by the estate of the late Prof. Cormac O’Ceallaigh and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies to honour “outstanding contributions to cosmic ray physics” and is awarded by the Commission on Astroparticle Physics (C4) of the IUPAP. The Commission wishes to use this award to recognize significant contributions to our field over an extended career. The selection will be made by the commission and the winner will be announced at the opening of the 39th ICRC on July 15, 2025..
Nominators are encouraged to consider nominating women and persons from minority backgrounds in line with the IUPAP objective of a better reflection of geographic and gender balance.
Nominations should include a Curriculum Vitae and a publication list of the nominee and a letter of support. The sponsor may also wish to ask two co-sponsors to send separate supporting letters.
Nominations of suitable recipients of the medal should be sent to:
Prof. Ralph Engel
Chair of the IUPAP C4 Commission (Astroparticle Physics)
E-mail: Ralph Engel
Bhabha Award
The IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award (Certificate, Medal and Prize) was established by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India in 2010 to honor Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, a cosmic ray physicist well-known for the Bhabha-Heitler cascade theory and relativistic positron-electron scattering, also known as Bhabha scattering. Homi Bhabha founded the TIFR in 1945 and initiated the nuclear energy program in India in 1951 with strong support from the well-known philanthropist and industrialist JRD Tata and the Government of India then led by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Homi Bhabha initiated experimental programs for the study of cosmic ray particles and their interactions with instruments either carried aloft to the top of the atmosphere with balloons or placed in laboratories at high altitude or deep underground. The Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize consists of a certificate, a medal, asignificant monetary award and an invitation to visit the TIFR, Mumbai, and the Cosmic Ray Laboratory, Ooty to give public lectures there, and will be awarded biennially at the International Cosmic Ray Conferences (ICRCs), held generally in odd numbered years.
The IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award will be given to an active scientist who has made distinguished contributions in the field of cosmic ray physics over an extended academic career. The winner of the prize will be selected by the members of the C4 and a senior cosmic ray scientist nominated by the Director, TIFR. The winner of the 2023 prize will be announced at the opening session of the 39th ICRC on July 15, 2025., and invited to visit India at a mutually convenient time thereafter to deliver two public lectures. The Director, TIFR will present the Homi Bhabha medal and the monetary award to the winner on this occasion. The winner will be provided with reasonable travel expenses and local hospitality for the visit to TIFR, Mumbai and Cosmic Ray Laboratory, Ooty in India.
Nominators are encouraged to consider nominating women and persons from minority backgrounds in line with the IUPAP objective of a better reflection of geographic and gender balance.
Nominations should include a letter supporting the case, the nominee’s curriculum vitae, and a list of important publications. The sponsor may also wish to ask two co-sponsors to send separate letters supporting the nomination.
Nominations of suitable recipients should be sent to:
Prof. Ralph Engel
Chair of the IUPAP C4 Commission (Astroparticle Physics)
E-mail: Ralph Engel
Shakti Duggal Award
The Shakti P. Duggal Award was established in 1983 to recognize outstanding work by a young scientist in the field of cosmic ray physics. The award consists of a prize of US $1,500 to be announced at the opening ceremony of the 39th ICRC on July 15, 2025.. The winner is invited to visit the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware to present a colloquium at some time during the following year. The intent of this award is to recognize and inspire young cosmic ray scientists early in their careers. The recipient will not have attained the age of 36 on January 1, 2025. Subject to this age limitation, any person from anywhere in the world who has contributed significantly to the field of cosmic ray physics including astroparticle physics is eligible for consideration. The selection of the prize winner will be made by an International Committee.
A brief history of the Shakti Duggal Award can be found here.
Nominations of potential recipients are now being solicited. Nominators are requested to send to the committee secretariat at the Bartol Research Institute their nominee’s curriculum vitae and publication list, a supporting letter, and, if possible, copies of one or two of the candidate’s most significant publications.
The sponsor may also wish to ask one or two co-sponsors to send letters supporting the nominations.
Nominations should be sent to:
Prof. Jamie Holder
Duggal Award Committee
Email: Jamie Holder
Yodh Prize
The Yodh Prize was established in 1998 and recognizes a scientist whose research career has had a major impact on the understanding of cosmic rays. The Prize was endowed by Gaurang and Kanwal Yodh to the University of California Irvine Foundation. The awardee is selected by an international committee of distinguished scientists in the field of cosmic ray and astroparticle physics. There is no age restriction. The award consists of a prize of US $2,000 and will be announced at the opening of the 39th ICRC on July 15, 2025.. The winner will also be invited to visit the University of California, Irvine to present a Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium at some time during the following year. Further information is available at this link.
Nominations will include a letter supporting the case, the nominee’s curriculum vitae, and a list of important publications. The sponsor may also wish to ask two co-sponsors to send letters supporting the nomination.
Nominations should be sent to:
Prof. Steven Barwick (University of California-Irvine)
E-mail: Steven Barwick
