The Cosmology Prize of the Gruber Foundation is awarded annually to one or more scientists of any nationality working in the fields of astronomy, physics, mathematics, and philosophy of science, for scientific advances in our understanding of the Universe and how we perceive it. The Cosmology Prizerecipients are selected by an international Advisory Board of seven members, nominated by the IAU and three other international scientific unions in fields relevant to cosmology. The Cosmology Prize consists of a gold medal and a cash prize of, as of 2008, US$ 500,000.
Gruber Cosmology Prize recipients
| 2012 | Charles Bennett (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and the WMAP Team |
| 2011 | Marc Davis (University of California at Berkeley, USA), George Efstathiou (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, UK), Carlos Frenk (Durham University, UK) and Simon White (Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany) |
| 2010 | Charles Steidel (California Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 2009 | Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Institution of Washington, CA, USA), Robert Kennicutt(Cambridge, UK) and Jeremy Mould (University of Melbourne School of Physics, Australia) |
| 2008 | J. Richard Bond (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program) |
| 2007 | Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt and their teams: the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-z Supernova Search Team (Australia, Chile, France, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA) |
| 2006 | John C. Mather (Greenbelt, MD, USA) and the Cosmic Background Explorer Team |
| 2005 | James E. Gunn (Princeton, NJ, USA) |
| 2004 | Alan Guth (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Andrei Linde (Stanford, CA, USA) |
| 2003 | Rasjid A. Sunyaev (Moscow, Russian Federation; and Garching, Germany) |
| 2002 | Vera C. Rubin (Washington, DC, USA) |
| 2001 | Martin J. Rees (Cambridge, UK) |
| 2000 | Allan R. Sandage (Pasadena, CA, USA) and James E. Peebles (Princeton, NJ, USA) |
Publicity
The Gruber Cosmology Prize is announced jointly by the TGF and the IAU, at a venue which has a tradition in astronomy. In the year of an IAU General Assembly, the Cosmology Prize is announced during the Opening Ceremony of that General Assembly.
Nominations
Nominations for the Gruber Cosmology Prize 2013 will close on 15 December 2012. Nominations should follow the instructions given in :
