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Physics World’s Margaret Harris honoured for ‘Feature of the Year’

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Margaret Harris The Physics World online editor is cited for taking, “A refreshing angle to Nobel prize reporting”. (Courtesy: IOPP) Congratulations to Margaret Harris for winning the “Feature of the Year – specialist audience” award from the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW). The Physics World online editor was cited for her article “The physics Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of”. The ABSW describes the article as: “A refreshing angle to Nobel prize reporting.
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Ken’ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley share the 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

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By Hamish Johnston Verified
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The 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy has been awarded to Ken’ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley. They share the prize “for their studies of stellar explosions and the origin of the elements”. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, Woosley and Nomoto talk about the astrophysics of supernovae – exploding stars – and what these spectacular events tell us about the elemental composition of the universe and how it has expanded since the Big Bang.
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‘Galactic archaeologists’ share the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

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The 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics is awarded to Vasily Belokurov, Amina Helmi and Rodrigo Ibata, “for uncovering the fossil evidence of past mergers proving that the Milky Way galaxy was built through hierarchical accretion”. Belokurov is at the UK’s University of Cambridge; Helmi is at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the Netherlands’ University of Groningen; and Ibata is at France’s University of Strasbourg.
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