Award
TheGruber Prize in Cosmology, established in 2000, is one of three prestigious international awards worth US$500,000 awarded by theGruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based atYale University inNew Haven,Connecticut.
Since 2001, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology has been co-sponsored by theInternational 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 fundamental advances in the field.
- 2000Allan Sandage andPhilip James E. Peebles
- 2001 LordMartin Rees
- 2002Vera Rubin
- 2003Rashid Sunyaev director at theMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
- 2004Alan Guth andAndrei Linde
- 2005James E. Gunn principal designer of theHubble Space Telescope
- 2006John Mather (co-recipient of the 2006Nobel Prize in Physics) and theCosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team
- 2007High-z Supernova Search Team,Supernova Cosmology Project,Brian P. Schmidt andSaul Perlmutter[1][2][3][4]
- 2008J. Richard Bond, director of theCanadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program;Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
- 2009Wendy Freedman, director of the Observatories of theCarnegie Institution of Washington in Pasadena, California;Robert Kennicutt, director of theInstitute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in England; andJeremy Mould, professorial fellow at theUniversity of Melbourne School of Physics
- 2010Charles Steidel, the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at theCalifornia Institute of Technology, in recognition of his revolutionary studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe
- 2011Simon White,Carlos Frenk,Marc Davis andGeorge Efstathiou
- 2012Charles L. Bennett (Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University) and theWilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Team
- 2013Viatcheslav Mukhanov andAlexei Starobinsky
- 2014Sidney van den Bergh,Jaan Einasto,Kenneth Freeman andR. Brent Tully[5]
- 2015John E. Carlstrom,Jeremiah P. Ostriker andLyman A. Page Jr[6]
- 2016Ronald Drever,Kip Thorne,Rainer Weiss, and the entireLaser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovery team.[7]
- 2017Sandra M. Faber[8]
- 2018Nazzareno Mandolesi,Jean-Loup Puget andESAPlanckteam.[9]
- 2019Nicholas Kaiser andJoseph Silk, "for their seminal contributions to the theory of cosmological structure formation and probes of dark matter".[10]
- 2020Lars Hernquist andVolker Springel[11]
- 2021Marc Kamionkowski,Uroš Seljak, andMatias Zaldarriaga[12]
- 2022Frank Eisenhauer[13]
- 2023Richard Ellis[14]
- 2024Marcia J. Rieke[15]
- 2025Ryan Cooke andMax Pettini[16]
