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Gruber Prize in Cosmology

Index Gruber Prize in Cosmology

The Gruber Prize in Cosmology, established in 2000, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. [1]

64 relations: Adam Riess, Alan Guth, Alexei Starobinsky, Allan Sandage, Andrei Linde, Bradley Schaefer, Brian J. Boyle, Brian Schmidt, Bruno Leibundgut, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Carlos Frenk, Carlton R. Pennypacker, Charles C. Steidel, Charles L. Bennett, Christopher Stubbs, Craig Hogan, First observation of gravitational waves, Gennady Chibisov, George Efstathiou, Gruber Foundation, Heidi Jo Newberg, High-Z Supernova Search Team, Hiranya Peiris, J. Richard Bond, James E. Gunn (astronomer), Jean-Loup Puget, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Jeremy Mould, Jim Peebles, Jo Dunkley, John C. Mather, John Carlstrom, Ken Freeman (astronomer), Kip Thorne, Licia Verde, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, List of awards named after people, List of California Institute of Technology people, List of people from Marin County, California, List of science and technology awards, List of Stanford University people, Marc Davis (astronomer), Martin Rees, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Peter Garnavich, Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, Planck (spacecraft), Rainer Weiss, Rashid Sunyaev, Richard Ellis (astronomer), ..., Robert Kennicutt, Robert Kirshner, Ronald Drever, Sandra Faber, Saul Perlmutter, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Sidney van den Bergh, Simon White, Supernova Cosmology Project, University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, Vera Rubin, Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Warrick Couch, Wendy Freedman. Expand index (14 more) »

Adam Riess

Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes.

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Alan Guth

Alan Harvey Guth (born February 27, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

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Alexei Starobinsky

Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky (Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Староби́нский; born 19 April 1948) is a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist.

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Allan Sandage

Allan Rex Sandage (June 18, 1926 – November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer.

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Andrei Linde

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

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Bradley Schaefer

Bradley Elliott Schaefer is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Louisiana State University.

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Brian J. Boyle

Brian J. Boyle is a Scottish astrophysicist based in Australia since 1996.

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Brian Schmidt

Brian Paul Schmidt (born on 24 February 1967 in Missoula, Montana) is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU).

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Bruno Leibundgut

Bruno Leibundgut (* 1. April 1960) is a Swiss astronomer born in Basel.

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Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) is a national research institute funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, located at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Carlos Frenk

Carlos Silvestre Frenk, (born 27 October 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist.

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Carlton R. Pennypacker

Carlton R. Pennypacker is an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and is the principal investigator for the Hands On Universe project.

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Charles C. Steidel

Charles C. Steidel (born October 14, 1962 in Ithaca, New York) is an American astronomer, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.

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Charles L. Bennett

Charles L. Bennett (born November 1956) is an American observational astrophysicist.

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Christopher Stubbs

Christopher Stubbs (born March 12, 1958) is an experimental physicist currently on the faculty at Harvard University in both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy.

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Craig Hogan

Craig Hogan is a Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Chicago and he is the director of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics.

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First observation of gravitational waves

The first observation of gravitational waves was made on 14 September 2015 and was announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.

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Gennady Chibisov

Gennady Chibisov (Геннадий Чибисов; September 23, 1946 – August 7, 2008) was a Soviet/Russian cosmologist.

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George Efstathiou

George Petros Efstathiou (born 2 September 1955) is a British astrophysicist who is Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.

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Gruber Foundation

The Gruber Foundation is a philanthropic foundation established by Peter and Patricia Gruber and is based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Heidi Jo Newberg

Heidi Jo Newberg (née Marvin) is an American astrophysicist known for her work in understanding the structure of our Milky Way galaxy.

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High-Z Supernova Search Team

The High-Z Supernova Search Team was an international cosmology collaboration which used Type Ia supernovae to chart the expansion of the universe.

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Hiranya Peiris

Hiranya V. Peiris is a British astrophysicist at University College London, best known for her work on the cosmic microwave background radiation.

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J. Richard Bond

John Richard "Dick" Bond (born 1950 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian astrophysicist and cosmologist.

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James E. Gunn (astronomer)

James Edward Gunn (born October 21, 1938) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University.

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Jean-Loup Puget

Jean-Loup Puget (born 7 March 1947) is a French astrophysicist.

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Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Ostriker (born April 13, 1937) is an astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at Columbia University and is the Charles A. Young Professor Emeritus at Princeton where he also continues as a Senior Research Scholar.

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Jeremy Mould

Jeremy R. Mould (born 31 July 1949 in Bristol) is an Australian astronomer currently at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology.

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Jim Peebles

Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born 1935) is a Canadian-American physicist and theoretical cosmologist who is currently the Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science at Princeton University.

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Jo Dunkley

Joanna Dunkley is an award-winning British astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Princeton University.

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John C. Mather

John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946, Roanoke, Virginia) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot.

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John Carlstrom

John E. Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American astrophysicist, and Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, at the University of Chicago.

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Ken Freeman (astronomer)

Kenneth Charles Freeman (born 27 August 1940) is an Australian astronomer and astrophysicist who is currently Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra.

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Kip Thorne

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.

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Licia Verde

Licia Verde (born 1971, Venice, Italy) is an Italian cosmologist and theoretical physicist and currently ICREA Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Barcelona.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is a scientific collaboration of international physics institutes and research groups dedicated to the search for gravitational waves.

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List of awards named after people

This is a list of prizes that are named after people.

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List of California Institute of Technology people

The California Institute of Technology has had numerous notable alumni and faculty.

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List of people from Marin County, California

This is a list of people from Marin County, California, people born in, raised in, or strongly associated with the county.

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List of science and technology awards

A list of medals, prizes, and other awards in the fields of science, technology, engineering and social science.

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List of Stanford University people

This page lists the members of Stanford University, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.

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Marc Davis (astronomer)

Marc Davis (born 1947) is an American Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Martin Rees

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist.

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Nicholas B. Suntzeff

Nicholas B. Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American University Distinguished Professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is Director of the Astronomy Program.

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Peter Garnavich

Peter M. Garnavich is the current chair of the Department of Physics at University of Notre Dame.

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Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente (Barcelona, 1964) is an astrophysicist working as a professor in University of Barcelona.

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Planck (spacecraft)

Planck was a space observatory operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) from 2009 to 2013, which mapped the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at microwave and infra-red frequencies, with high sensitivity and small angular resolution.

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Rainer Weiss

Rainer "Rai" Weiss (born September 29, 1932) is an American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.

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Rashid Sunyaev

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Рәшит Гали улы Сөнәев, Раши́д Али́евич Сюня́ев; born 1 March 1943 in Tashkent, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist of Tatar descent.

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Richard Ellis (astronomer)

Richard Salisbury Ellis CBE FRS (born 25 May 1950, Colwyn Bay, Wales) is Professor of Astrophysics at the University College London.

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Robert Kennicutt

Robert Charles Kennicutt, Jr. FRS is an American astronomer.

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Robert Kirshner

Robert P. Kirshner (born August 15, 1949) is an American astronomer, currently the Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University.

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Ronald Drever

Ronald William Prest Drever (26 October 1931 – 7 March 2017) was a Scottish experimental physicist.

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Sandra Faber

Sandra Moore Faber (born December 28, 1944) is an astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies.

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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.

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Savilian Professor of Astronomy

The position of Savilian Professor of Astronomy was established at the University of Oxford in 1619.

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Sidney van den Bergh

Sidney Van den Bergh, OC, FRS (born 20 May 1929 in Wassenaar) is a retired Canadian astronomer.

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Simon White

Simon David Manton White, FRS (born 30 September 1951) is a British astrophysicist.

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Supernova Cosmology Project

The Supernova Cosmology Project is one of two research teams that determined the likelihood of an accelerating universe and therefore a positive cosmological constant, using data from the redshift of Type Ia supernovae.

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University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) at the University of Maryland, College Park, is home to ten academic departments and a dozen interdisciplinary research centers and institutes.

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Vera Rubin

Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates.

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Viatcheslav Mukhanov

Viatcheslav Fyodorovich Mukhanov (Вячесла́в Фёдорович Муха́нов; born October 2, 1956) is a Soviet/Russian theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

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Warrick Couch

Warrick John Couch (born 1954) is an Australian professional astronomer.

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Wendy Freedman

Wendy Laurel Freedman (born July 17, 1957) is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruber_Prize_in_Cosmology

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