Gruber Prize in Cosmology

The Gruber Prize for Cosmology ( Gruber Cosmology Prize ) is awarded since 2000 by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation and supported since 2001 by the International Astronomical Union.

The Cosmology Prize is a leading cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosopher for basic theoretical, analytical or conceptual discoveries awarded that lead to substantial progress in the area. He is - as the other Gruber prices also - together with a gold medal and a prize of $ 500,000 (as of 2012).

Award winners

• 2000 James Peebles and Allan Sandage
• 2001 Martin Rees
• 2002 Vera Rubin
• 2003 Rashid Sunyaev
• 2004 Alan Guth and Andrei Linde
• 2005 James E. Gunn
• 2006 John C. Mather and the COBE team
• 2007 Saul Perlmutter and his Supernova Cosmology Project team along with Brian Schmidt and the High -z Supernova Search Team
• 2008 J. Richard Bond
• 2009 Wendy Freedman, Robert Kennicutt, Jeremy Mould for the determination of the Hubble constant
• 2010 Charles Steidel for the exploration of the oldest previously known galaxies
• 2011 Marc Davis, George Efstathiou, Carlos Frenk, Simon DM White
• 2012 Charles L. Bennett and the WMAP team
• Viatcheslav Mukhanov 2013 and Alexei Starobinsky