Gruber Prize in Cosmology
- Gruber Prize in Cosmology
The Gruber Prize in Cosmology is one of five, international awards made by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Gruber Cosmology Prize was established in 2000 and the annual prize is worth $500,000.
Since 2001, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology has been co-sponsored by the International Astronomical Union.
Recipients are selected by a distinguished panel of experts 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.
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation honors and encourages educational excellence, social justice and scientific achievements that better the human condition. For more information about the Foundation and its priorities, please go to http://www.gruberprizes.org
Nominations for the Gruber Prizes in the women's rights, justice, neuroscience, genetics and cosmology categories are accepted at http://www.gruberprizes.org/Nominations/Nominations.php
Recipients
*2008 J. Richard Bond, PhD, 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 [http://www.gruberprizes.org/GruberPrizes/Cosmology_LaureateOverview.php?awardid=42] [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/07/17_gruber.shtml] [http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Phys-Gruber-Prize-2007.html]
*2006 John Mather (co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team
*2005 James 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
External links
[http://www.gruberprizes.org Gruber Foundation Web site]
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