Awards of the DBP Director were awarded

Announcement of the Commitee of the DBP Director Award

We are happy to announce that the Committee of the Director of the Fundamental Research Department Award unanimously decided to give three awards for scientific achievement in 2020 to:

* Prof. Lech Szymanowski for the leading and dominant contribution to a series of theoretical works on the structure of the nucleon, and in particular for studies on the relationship of Sivers functions with processes involving transversely polarized nucleons,

* Dr. Artur Ukleia for the leading contribution to the publication of the LHCb Collaboration on the CP parity conservation in the decays of charmed baryon Xi_c,

* Dr. Paweł Bielewicz for significant contributions to the work of the Planck Collaboration consisting in testing assumptions about the statistical isotropy and Gaussian character of relict radiation maps,

and one award for popularization activities for

* Dr. Ania Durkalec for numerous presentations and "live stream" presentations (available on YouTube) and a series of articles in Delta about contemporary astronomy.

Award committee:
Stanisław Mrówczyński (chair),
Michał Kowal,
Justyna Łagoda,
Zygmunt Patyk,
Agnieszka Pollo,
Michał Bluj (secretary)