| Einstein Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | To recognize outstanding accomplishments in the field of gravitational physics. |
| Location | College Park, Maryland |
| Country | United States |
| Hosted by | American Physical Society |
| Reward | $10,000 |
| First award | 2003 |
| Website | Einstein Prize |
Since 2003, theEinstein Prize is a biennial prize awarded by theAmerican Physical Society. The recipients are chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in the field ofgravitational physics. The prize is named afterAlbert Einstein (1879–1955), author of thespecial andgeneral theories of relativity. The prize was established by the Topical Group on Gravitation at the beginning of 1999. As of 2013, the prize is valued at $10,000.[1] The 2005 prize forBryce DeWitt was announced shortly before his death, and awarded posthumously.[2]
| Year | Recipient(s) | Citation | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | John A. Wheeler | For pioneering investigations ingeneral relativity, includinggravitational radiation,quantum gravity,black holes,space time singularities, and symmetries in Einstein's equations, and for leadership and inspiration to generations of researchers in general relativity. | [3] [4] |
| Peter G. Bergmann | |||
| 2005 | Bryce DeWitt | For a broad range of original contributions togravitational physics, especially in quantum gravity,gauge field theories,radiation reaction incurved spacetime, andnumerical relativity; and for inspiring a generation of students. | [5] |
| 2007 | Rainer Weiss | For fundamental contributions to the development ofgravitational wave detectors based onoptical interferometry, leading to the successful operation of theLaser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. | [6] [7] |
| Ronald Drever | |||
| 2009 | James Hartle | For a broad range of fundamental contributions torelativistic stars,quantum fields in curved spacetime, and especiallyquantum cosmology. | [8] |
| 2011 | Ezra Ted Newman | For outstanding contributions totheoretical relativity, including theNewman–Penrose formalism,Kerr–Newman solution,Heaven, andnull foliation theory. For his intellectual passion, generosity and honesty, which have inspired and represented a model for generations of relativists. | [9] |
| 2013 | Irwin I. Shapiro | For his contributions to experimentalSolar System tests of relativistic theories ofgravity, and in particular for proposing and measuring theShapiro time delay effect. | [10] |
| 2015 | Jacob Bekenstein | For his ground-breaking work on black hole entropy, which launched the field ofblack hole thermodynamics and transformed the long effort to unify quantum mechanics and gravitation. | [11] |
| 2017 | Robert M. Wald | For fundamental contributions to classical and semiclassical gravity studies, in particular, the discovery of the general formula for black hole entropy, and for developing a rigorous formulation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. | [12] |
| 2019 | Abhay Ashtekar | For numerous and seminal contributions to general relativity, including the theory of black holes, canonical quantum gravity, and quantum cosmology. | [13] |
| 2021 | Clifford Martin Will | For outstanding contributions to observational tests of general relativity with theories ofgravitational waves, astrophysical black holes, andneutron stars. | [14] [15] |
| Saul Teukolsky | |||
| 2023 | Gary T. Horowitz | For fundamental contributions to classical gravity and gravitational aspects of string theory. | [16] |
