The astronomer Roger Mor wins the second prize of the "La bona gent"contest of the Diari de Tarragona

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The astronomer Roger Mor, researcher of the Gaia group, won the second prize the past 16th of January.

The contest searched for the Tarragonian person of the year, and proposed several candidates from different backgrounds. The winner was Ruth Lau, a neurosurgeon who won the Young Neurosurgeon Award 2019. Mor ended in the second placed, and was voted by 8.077 persons.

The award ceremony was sponsored by La Caixa, and the prizes were given by newspaper director Alex Saldaña and the la Caixa Tarragona director David Ciscar.

You can read the whole piece at Diari de Tarragona and more about Roger's research at Institut de Ciències del Cosmos. 

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