Lyman Page. PHOTO BY DENISE APPLEWHITE
The 2015 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize has been awarded to Jeremiah Ostriker and Lyman Page for “individual and collective contributions to the study of the universe on the largest scales.”
The two share the prize with John Carlstrom of the University of Chicago. Half of the $500,000 prize went to Ostriker, while Carlstrom and Page divided the other half. Each also received a gold medal at the XXIX General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Aug. 3, 2015. Ostriker is the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, Emeritus, and Page is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Physics.
Jeremiah Ostriker. PHOTO BY DENISE APPLEWHITE
According to the award citation, Ostriker was honored for his “groundbreaking body of work over a five-decade career,” while Carlstrom and Page “have each overseen ground-based experiments providing a wealth of information about the origins and evolution of the universe. Together the theoretical and experimental work of these three scientists has contributed to, clarified and advanced today’s standard cosmological model.”
–By Catherine Zandonella
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