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, a non-profit organization based at

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

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. 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

*2022

Frank Eisenhauer Frank Eisenhauer (born 9 June 1968 in Augsburg) is a German astronomer and astrophysicist. He is best known for his contributions to interferometry and spectroscopy and the study of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. Life Eisenhauer ...

*2021 Marc Kamionkowski, Uroš Seljak, and Matias Zaldarriaga *2020 Lars Hernquist and

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*2019

Nicholas Kaiser Nicholas Kaiser (born 15 September 1954) is a British cosmologist. Life Kaiser received his Bachelor's in Physics at Leeds University in 1978, and his Part III in Maths at University of Cambridge in 1979. He obtained his PhD in Astronomy, also ...

and Joseph Silk, "for their seminal contributions to the theory of cosmological structure formation and probes of dark matter". *2018 Nazzareno Mandolesi, Jean-Loup Puget and

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*2017

Sandra M. Faber Sandra Moore Faber (born December 28, 1944) is an American astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies. She is the University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works a ...

*2016 Ronald Drever,

Kip Thorne Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. ...

Rainer Weiss Rainer "Rai" Weiss ( , ; born September 29, 1932) is an American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT and an adjunct professor at LSU. He is best known ...

, and the entire Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovery team. *2015

John E. Carlstrom John E. Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American astrophysicist, and Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, at the University of Chicago. He graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1981, and from the University of ...

, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Lyman A. Page, Jr *2014

Sidney van den Bergh Sidney Van den Bergh, OC, FRS (born 20 May 1929 in Wassenaar) is a retired Dutch-Canadian astronomer. He showed an interest in science from an early age, learning to read with books on astronomy. In addition to being interested in astronomy. ...

Jaan Einasto Jaan Einasto (born 23 February 1929) is an Estonian astrophysicist and one of the discoverers of the large-scale structure of the Universe. Born Jaan Eisenschmidt in Tartu, the name "Einasto" is an anagram of "Estonia" (it was chosen by his ...

, Kenneth Freeman and

R. Brent Tully Richard Brent Tully (born March 9, 1943) is a Canadian-born American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii. Born in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tully's specialty is the astrophysics of gal ...

2014 Gruber Cosmology Prize
10 June 2014 *2013

Viatcheslav Mukhanov Viatcheslav Fyodorovich Mukhanov (russian: Вячесла́в Фёдорович Муха́нов; born October 2, 1956) is a Soviet/ Russian born German theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is best known for the theory of Quantum Origin ...

and Alexei Starobinsky *2012 Charles L. Bennett (Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University) and the

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(WMAP) Team *2011

Simon White Simon David Manton White (born 30 September 1951), FRS, is a British astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019. Life White studied Mathematics at Jesus College ...

Carlos Frenk Carlos Silvestre Frenk (born 27 October 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist and the Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University.University of Durham Department of PhysicsResearch in the Department: Status and Outlook Marc ...

, Marc Davis and George Efstathiou *2010 Charles Steidel, the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at the

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, 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 John Richard Bond (born 1950 in Toronto, Ontario), also known as J. Richard Bond, is a Canadian astrophysicist and cosmologist. Bond received his bachelor's degree in 1973 from the University of Toronto and his PhD in theoretical physics in 19 ...

, 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 Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU). He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's Mo ...

and

Saul Perlmutter Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is a U.S. astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Science ...

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*2006 John C. Mather, John Mather (co-recipient of the 2006

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in Physics) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team *2005 James E. Gunn principal designer of the

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*2004 Alan Guth and

Andrei Linde Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde (russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Linde is one of the ...

*2003 Rashid Sunyaev director of the

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*2002 Vera Rubin *2001 Lord

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*2000

Allan Sandage Allan Rex Sandage (June 18, 1926 – November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble cons ...

and

Philip James E. Peebles Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is widely re ...

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External links

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