The prestigious International Prize "Bruno Pontecorvo" 2016 was awarded to the Italian physicist Gianpaolo Bellini with the following motivations: “…for his outstanding contributions to the development of low-energy neutrino detection methods, their realization in the Borexino detector, and the important solar and geo-neutrino results obtained in this experiment". The Yury members were Samoil Bilenky, Luciano Maiani, Arthur McDonald (Nobel Prize 2015), Alexander Olshevskiy (chair), Yoichiro Suzuki.
