Tomalla Foundation
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The Tomalla Foundation for Gravity Research promotes research into gravity in Switzerland and in the world. It was founded in 1982 according to testamentary wishes of Dr. , an engineer from Basel, Switzerland.[1] Every third year, the foundation awards prizes for exceptional research in gravitation and/or cosmology, and funds research fellows and visitors for gravity research at Swiss universities.
Tomalla Prize laureates[]
List of Tomalla prize laureates:[2]
- 2016
- Kip Thorne
- 2013
- Scott Tremaine - for his contribution to gravitational dynamics.
- 2009
- Viatcheslav Mukhanov - for his contributions to inflationary cosmology and especially for the determination of the density perturbation spectrum from inflation.
- Alexei Starobinsky - for his pioneering contributions to inflationary cosmology and especially for the determination of the spectrum of gravitational waves generated during inflation.
- 2008
- Demetrios Christodoulou
- 2003
- Jim Peebles
- 2000
- Gustav Tammann - for his efforts in measuring the expansion rate of the universe and especially for his pioneering work using Supernovae as standard candles.
- 1996
- Werner Israel
- 1993
- Allan Sandage
- 1987
- Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
- 1984
- Andrei Sakharov - for his fundamental contribution to the problem of the matter - antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and his new ideas on gravity at a fundamental level (induced gravity).
- 1981
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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References[]
- ^ "Laudatio by Ruth Durrer" (PDF). The Tomalla Foundation. p. 1. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ "The Tomalla prize holders". The Tomalla Foundation. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
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