Abstract
Three cosmologists – James Gunn, James Peebles and Martin Rees – have shared the 2005 Crafoord Prize for their “contributions towards understanding the large-scale structure of the universe”. The $500 000 prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and recognizes research in mathematics, astronomy, ecology or geosciences – disciplines that are often ignored by the Nobel prizes. Gunn and Peebles (Princeton University) and Rees (Cambridge University) were credited with making “revolutionary contributions” to the understanding of how the universe evolved from a smooth primordial soup of particles and radiation into the galaxies and clusters we see today.
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