Gruber Prize in Cosmology

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Presented by Gruber Foundation First awarded 2000		Reward(s) US$500,000 Official website gruber.yale.edu
Awarded for Discoveries leading to fundamental advances in our understanding of the universe Location Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut

The Gruber Prize in Cosmology, established in 2000, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Since 2001, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology has been co-sponsored by the International Astronomical Union.

Recipients are selected by a panel from nominations that are received from around the world.

The Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize honors a leading cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosopher for theoretical, analytical or conceptual discoveries leading to a fundamental advances in the field.

Recipients

2016 Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and the entire Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovery team.

2015 John E. Carlstrom, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Lyman A. Page, Jr

2014 Sidney van den Bergh, Jaan Einasto, Kenneth Freeman and R. Brent Tully

2013 Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky

2012 Charles L. Bennett (Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University) and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Team

2011 Simon White, Carlos Frenk, Marc Davis and George Efstathiou

2010 Charles Steidel, the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, in recognition of his revolutionary studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe

2009 Wendy Freedman, director of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Pasadena, California; Robert Kennicutt, director of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in England; and Jeremy Mould, professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne School of Physics

2008 J. Richard Bond, director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program; Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

2007 High-z Supernova Search Team, Supernova Cosmology Project, Brian P. Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter [1]

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2006 John Mather (co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team

2005 James E. Gunn principal designer of the Hubble Space Telescope

2004 Alan Guth and Andrei Linde

2003 Rashid Sunyaev director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik

2002 Vera Rubin

2001 Lord Martin Rees

2000 Allan Sandage and Philip James E. Peebles

References

Gruber Prize in Cosmology Wikipedia

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