Crafoord Prize

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Crafoord Prize

HONOR

A $500,000 prize for work that falls outside of Nobel qualifications, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Alexander Grothendieck Mathematician 28-May-1928 Grothendieck topologies

Fred Hoyle Astronomer 24-Jun-1915 20-Aug-2001 Opposed the Big Bang but named it

John Maynard Smith Biologist 6-Jan-1920 19-Apr-2004 Applied game theory to evolutionary biology

Ernst Mayr Biologist 5-Jul-1904 3-Feb-2005 Evolutionary biologist

P. James E. Peebles Astronomer 25-Apr-1935 Galaxy formation

Edwin E. Salpeter Astronomer 3-Dec-1924 26-Nov-2008 Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography

Allan R. Sandage Astronomer 18-Jun-1926 13-Nov-2010 Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars

Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Astronomer 26-Jun-1914 31-Mar-1997 Father of space telescopes

Rashid Sunyaev Astronomer 1-Mar-1943 Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

Edward O. Wilson Biologist 10-Jun-1929 Father of Sociobiology

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