Two gamma-ray researchers awarded 2011 Shaw Prize

Wall Street Journal : Two scientists share this year’s Shaw Prize in astronomy: Gerald Fishman, chief scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and Enrico Costa, director of research at the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. According to a press release, the two men were picked “for their leadership of space missions that enabled the demonstration of the cosmological origin of gamma ray bursts, the brightest sources known in the universe.” The Shaw Prize, Hong Kong’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize, annually recognizes innovation in three fields—astronomy, medicine, and mathematics—with three awards of $1 million each.