The 2020 Tycho Brahe Medal has been awarded to professor Stefano Vitale of the Physics Department of the University of Trento, for leading the LISA Pathfinder mission which has demonstrated with extraordinary precision the technology required for the future LISA mission, whose fundamental aim is to observe low frequency gravitational waves from space.
The award ceremony will take place on 30 June during the annual EAS meeting 2020
The Tycho Brahe Medal is awarded in recognition of the development or exploitation of European instruments or major discoveries based largely on such instruments.