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

 * 2000 Allan Sandage and Philip James E. Peebles
 * 2001 Lord Martin Rees
 * 2002 Vera Rubin
 * 2003 Rashid Sunyaev director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
 * 2004 Alan Guth and Andrei Linde
 * 2005 James E. Gunn principal designer of the Hubble Space Telescope
 * 2006 John Mather (co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team
 * 2007 High-z Supernova Search Team, Supernova Cosmology Project, Brian P. Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter
 * 2008 J. Richard Bond, director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program; Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
 * 2009 Wendy Freedman, director of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Pasadena, California; Robert Kennicutt, director of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in England; and Jeremy Mould, professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne School of Physics
 * 2010 Charles Steidel, the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, in recognition of his revolutionary studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe
 * 2011 Simon White, Carlos Frenk, Marc Davis and George Efstathiou
 * 2012 Charles L. Bennett (Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University) and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Team
 * 2013 Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky
 * 2014 Sidney van den Bergh, Jaan Einasto, Kenneth Freeman and R. Brent Tully
 * 2015 John E. Carlstrom, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Lyman A. Page Jr
 * 2016 Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and the entire Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovery team.
 * 2017 Sandra M. Faber
 * 2018 Nazzareno Mandolesi, Jean-Loup Puget and ESA Planck team.
 * 2019 Nicholas Kaiser and Joseph Silk, "for their seminal contributions to the theory of cosmological structure formation and probes of dark matter".
 * 2020 Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel
 * 2021 Marc Kamionkowski, Uroš Seljak, and Matias Zaldarriaga
 * 2022 Frank Eisenhauer
 * 2023 Richard Ellis
 * 2024 Marcia J. Rieke