Gruber Prize in Cosmology
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 2023 Richard Ellis 2022 Frank Eisenhauer 2021 Marc Kamionkowski, Uroš Seljak, and Matias Zaldarriaga 2020 Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel 2019 Nicholas Kaiser 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 ESA Planck team. 2017 Sandra M. Faber 2016 Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and the entire Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovery team. 2015 John E. Carlstrom, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Lyman A. Page, Jr 2014 Sidney van den Bergh, Jaan Einasto, Kenneth Freeman and R. Brent Tully 2013 Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky 2012 Charles L. Bennett (Professor of