The Bruno Pontecorvo Prize 2005 was awarded ments in heavy-ion physics research and considerable to Professors L.Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon Univer- contribution to international cooperation and mutual un- sity, Pittsburg, the USA), S. Mikheev (the Institute for derstanding. Nuclear Research (INR), Moscow, Russia), A. Smirnov (INR, Moscow, and ICTP, Trieste, Italy) for the predic- The International ®Brightness Award¯ was tion and study of matter effects on neutrino oscillations, awarded to D. Donets, E. D. Donets, E. E. Donets and known as the MikheevÄSmirnovÄWolfenstein effect. V. Salnikov (VBLHE, JINR) for a series of works un- The Humboldt Research Award 2005 was awarded der the title ®Development of Electron String Source of to Professor M. Itkis (JINR) for outstanding achieve- Highly Charged Ions¯.
PRIZEWINNERS OF JINR'S ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR BEST RESEARCH
I. Theoretical Physics Research ®Experimental Model-Free Determination of Main Pa- rameters of the Cascade Gamma-Decay of Compound First Prize Nuclei from the Region 39