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Daniel Kerszberg obtains the Florial Goebel Prize from the MAGIC Collaboration

November 17, 2021

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Daniel Kerszberg has been honored with the Florial Goebel Prize from the MAGIC Collaboration (2020 edition).

Daniel obtained the prize “for his participation in the extraordinary effort in the first search for LIV effects in GRB observations by Cherenkov telescopes using MAGIC GRB190114C data, including the development and application of innovative analysis approaches”. Link to paper on arXiv

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