| 2026 |
Alexei V. Filippenko, Ken'ichi Nomoto, and Stanford Woosley (University of California, Berkeley, University of Tokyo, and University of California, Santa Cruz respectively) |
| 2025 |
Ryan Cooke and Max Pettini (Durham University UK, and University of Western Australia respectively) |
| 2024 |
Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory)
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| 2023 |
Richard Ellis (University College London) |
| 2022 |
Frank Eisenhauer (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) |
| 2021 |
Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University), Uroš Seljak (University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Matias Zaldarriaga (Institute for Advanced Study) |
| 2020 |
Lars Hernquist (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) and Volker Springel (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) |
| 2019 |
Nicholas Kaiser (École Normale Supérieure, France) and Joseph Ivor Silk (Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris, France) |
| 2018 |
Planck Team, Jean-Loup Puget (Université Paris XI, France) and Nazzareno Mandolesi (INAF, Italy) |
| 2017 |
Sandra M. Faber (University of Californa, Santa Cruz, USA) |
| 2016 |
Ronald Drever (California Institute of Technology, USA), Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology, USA), Rainer Weiss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) and the entire Laser Interferometer Gravitational‐Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovery team. |
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2015
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John E. Carlstrom (University of Chicago, USA), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Columbia University, New York, USA) and Lyman A. Page, Jr. (Princeton University, New Jersey, USA)
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| 2014 |
Jaan Einasto (University of Tartu, Estonia), Kenneth Freeman (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia), R. Brent Tully (Institute of Astronomy, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA) and Sidney van den Bergh (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, British Columbia, Canada) |
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2013
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Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität, Germany) and Alexei Starobinsky (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia) |
| 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) |