2020 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZES RECOGNIZE CONTRIBUTIONS TO MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY

Winners of the 2022 New Horizons in physics Prize. Clockwise from the top left are Alessandra Corsi, Greg Hallinan, Raffaella Margutti, and Mansi Kasliwal. [Image credit: breakthroughprize.org]

9 Sep 2021 — The LIGO Scientific Collaboration congratulates the winners of the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes – including the winners of the New Horizons in Physics Prize: Alessandra Corsi (Texas Tech University), Gregg Hallinan and Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech), and Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley), “for leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars”. Read more about the 2022 winners at breakthroughprize.org.