HONOR

"The Cosmology Prize honors a leading cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosopher for theoretical, analytical, or conceptual discoveries leading to fundamental advances in the field." Co-sponsored since 2001 by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation and the International Astronomical Union.

Official Website:
http://www.gruberprizes.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alan Guth	Physicist	27-Feb-1947		Inflationary theory of cosmology
P. James E. Peebles	Astronomer	25-Apr-1935		Galaxy formation
Saul Perlmutter	Astronomer	1959		Accelerating expansion of the universe
Martin Rees	Astronomer	23-Jun-1942		President of the Royal Society
Vera Rubin	Astronomer	23-Jul-1928		Structure of galaxies
Allan R. Sandage	Astronomer	18-Jun-1926	13-Nov-2010	Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars
Brian P. Schmidt	Astronomer	24-Feb-1967		Accelerating universe
Rashid Sunyaev	Astronomer	1-Mar-1943		Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

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