Zdzisław Szymański Prize for the year 2017

Zdzisław Szymański Prize for the year 2017 has been awarded to

dr Marco La Cognata
from Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN (Catania, Italy)

in recognition of his contributions to the field of experimental studies of nuclear reactions of astrophysical relevance, in particular for developing extensions of the Trojan Horse Method to resonant reactions, including subthreshold resonances.

The Diploma was awarded on September 8th during the XXXV Mazurian Lakes Conference of Physics held in September 3–9, 2017 at Piaski, Poland.

Dr Marco La Cognata receives the Prize from the dean of the Physics Department of the University of Warsaw prof. Dariusz Wasik.




Left: dr Marco La Cognata, prof. Wojciech Satuła, Paweł Szymański. Center: Ms Ewa Wasik, prof. Dariusz Wasik, prof. Wojciech Satuła, Paweł Szymański. Right: prof. Wojciech Satuła, prof. Dariusz Wasik, dr Marco La Cognata.

TRW (Tomasz Werner AT fuw edu pl)