Tycho Brahe Medal awarded to IMPRS Speaker Anton Zensus

The 2023 Tycho Brahe Medal is awarded to Prof J. Anton Zensus (Max-Planck- Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany) for major advances of Very Long Baseline Interferometry that led to the first images of the shadows of the black holes in the galaxy Messier 87 and in our own Galactic centre. The Tycho Brahe Medal of the European Astronomical Society honours outstanding scientists in recognition of the development or exploitation of European instruments or major discoveries based largely on such instruments.

Detailed MPIfR announcement: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/announcements/2023/1

Details about the medal: https://eas.unige.ch/tycho_brahe_medal.jsp