Laureates

MG 10 · 2003

CBPF (Brazilian Center for Research in Physics)

CBPF was recognized for physics research and education in Brazil.

Founded

1949, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Location at the Time of the Award

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Presented To

Cesar Lattes, Jose Leite Lopes, and Jayme Tiomno

Prize Motivation

For its role as a teaching and research institution and as a place originating fundamental physics ideas in the exploration of the universe.

Meeting

MG X, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

CBPF institutional image

Work

Institutional Marcel Grossmann Awards recognize the infrastructures, collaborations, and research cultures that make major advances in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology possible.

CBPF was recognized for physics research and education in Brazil.

The award highlights how sustained institutional work can create instruments, archives, scientific communities, and missions that become foundations for later discoveries.