TheHomi Bhabha Medal and Prize is awarded every two years, jointly by theInternational Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and theTata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). The award, established in 2010 in honor ofHomi J. Bhabha, consists of a certificate, a medal, an award of 250,000Indian rupees (about US$ 3000, as of 2025), and an invitation to visit and to give public lectures at the TIFR inMumbai and the Cosmic Ray Laboratory inOoty. The award ceremony take place at the biennialInternational Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC). The recipient is "an active scientist who has made distinguished contributions in the field of high-energy cosmic-ray physics and astroparticle physics over an extended academic career."[1] The inaugural award was made in 2011 to SirArnold Wolfendale.[2]
There are several different awards named in honor of the physicist Homi J. Bhabha — for example, the Homi Bhabha Medal (in five different categories) awarded by the Nuclear Fuel Complex of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India.[3]
| Year | Recipient | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | SirArnold Wolfendale | Durham University,Durham, England, UK |
| 2013 | Heinz Völk [de] | Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics,Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2015 | Thomas K. Gaisser | Bartol Research Institute,University of Delaware, USA |
| 2017 | Subir Sarkar | University of Oxford, UK &Niels Bohr Institute,Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2019 | Takaaki Kajita | Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR),University of Tokyo, Japan |
| 2021 | Francis Halzen | University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
| 2023 | Samuel C. C. Ting | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA |