HONOR

A $500,000 prize for work that falls outside of Nobel qualifications, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alexander Grothendieck	Mathematician	28-May-1928		Grothendieck topologies
Fred Hoyle	Astronomer	24-Jun-1915	20-Aug-2001	Opposed the Big Bang but named it
John Maynard Smith	Biologist	6-Jan-1920	19-Apr-2004	Applied game theory to evolutionary biology
Ernst Mayr	Biologist	5-Jul-1904	3-Feb-2005	Evolutionary biologist
P. James E. Peebles	Astronomer	25-Apr-1935		Galaxy formation
Edwin E. Salpeter	Astronomer	3-Dec-1924	26-Nov-2008	Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography
Allan R. Sandage	Astronomer	18-Jun-1926	13-Nov-2010	Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.	Astronomer	26-Jun-1914	31-Mar-1997	Father of space telescopes
Rashid Sunyaev	Astronomer	1-Mar-1943		Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Edward O. Wilson	Biologist	10-Jun-1929		Father of Sociobiology

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