2011 IBA Prizewinner announced: Dr Elisabetta Boaretto

The board of the EPS Nuclear Physics Division is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2011 IBA-Europhysics Prize for Applied Nuclear Science and Nuclear Methods and Nuclear Researches in Medicine is Dr Elisabetta Boaretto, Radiocarbon Dating and Cosmogenic Isotopes Lab, Bar Ilan University and Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Dr Boaretto has been awarded the prize in recognition of her significant contribution to the development of precise quality controlled radiocarbon dating and the application of accelerator mass spectrometry techniques to the field of archaeology.

The 2011 IBA-Europhysics Prize will be presented to Dr Boaretto by Mr Yves Jongen, Chief Research Officer of the IBA company and Dr Douglas MacGregor, Secretary of the EPS Nuclear Physics Division, at a ceremony to be held on 30th May during the first International Conference on Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science, ARIS 2011&, Leuven, Belgium.

The IBA-Europhysics prize is sponsored by Ion Beam Applications, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Further details are given on the IBA Prize webpage.