Gruber Prize in Cosmology

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The Gruber Prize in Cosmology

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

The Gruber Prize in Cosmology, established in 2000, is one of three prestigious international awards worth US$500,000 awarded 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 fundamental advances in the field.

## Recipients

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* 2000 Allan Sandage and Philip James E. Peebles
* 2001 Lord Martin Rees
* 2002 Vera Rubin
* 2003 Rashid Sunyaev director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
* 2004 Alan Guth and Andrei Linde
* 2005 James E. Gunn principal designer of the Hubble Space Telescope
* 2006 John Mather (co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team
* 2007 High-z Supernova Search Team, Supernova Cosmology Project, Brian P. Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter [1][2][3] Archived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
* 2008 J. Richard Bond, director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program; Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
* 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
* 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
* 2011 Simon White, Carlos Frenk, Marc Davis and George Efstathiou
* 2012 Charles L. Bennett (Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University) and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Team
* 2013 Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky
* 2014 Sidney van den Bergh, Jaan Einasto, Kenneth Freeman and R. Brent Tully[1]
* 2015 John E. Carlstrom, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Lyman A. Page Jr[2]
* 2016 Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and the entire Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovery team.[3]
* 2017 Sandra M. Faber[4]
* 2018 Nazzareno Mandolesi, Jean-Loup Puget and ESA Planck team.[5]
* 2019 Nicholas Kaiser and Joseph Silk, "for their seminal contributions to the theory of cosmological structure formation and probes of dark matter".[6]
* 2020 Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel[7]
* 2021 Marc Kamionkowski, Uroš Seljak, and Matias Zaldarriaga[8]
* 2022 Frank Eisenhauer[9]
* 2023 Richard Ellis[10]
* 2024 Marcia J. Rieke[11]
* 2025 Ryan Cooke and Max Pettini[12]

## See also

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* List of astronomy awards

## References

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1. ^ 2014 Gruber Cosmology Prize. 10 June 2014
2. ^ 2015 Gruber Cosmology Prize. 11 August 2015
3. ^ "2016 Gruber Cosmology Prize Press Release - The Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
4. ^ "2017 Gruber Cosmology Prize Press Release - The Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
5. ^ "2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize - The Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
6. ^ "2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize Citation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
7. ^ "2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize". gruber.yale.edu. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
8. ^ "2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
9. ^ 2022 Gruber Cosmology Prize 17 May 2022
10. ^ 2023 Gruber Cosmology Prize
11. ^ 2024 Gruber Cosmology Prize
12. ^ "2025 Gruber Cosmology Prize". Gruber Foundation. Retrieved 15 May 2025.

## External links

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* Gruber Foundation Web site