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10th
Marcel Grossmann Meeting
20-26 July 2003, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
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Institutional Award
CBPF (Brazilian Center for Research in
Physics)
For its role as a teaching and research institution and as a place
originating fundamental physics ideas in the exploration of the universe
—presented to its founders Cesar Lattes, José Leite Lopez and Jayme
Tiomno.
Individual Awards
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
and James W. York, Jr.
For separate as well as joint work in
establishing the mathematical framework for proving the existence and
uniqueness of solutions to Einstein's gravitational field equations.
Yuval
Ne'eman
For his contributions to science, epistimology, mathematics and physics
from subnuclear to space sciences.
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9th
Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2-9 July 2000,
Rome, Italy
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Institutional Award
- Wednesday
evening, 5 July, Sala Protomoteca Campidoglio
The
Solvay Institutes (Solvay Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de
Chimie)
For identifying and recording in
discussions with the protagonists the crucial developments of physics
and astrophysics in the twentieth century
—presented to Jacques Solvay.
Individual Awards
- Monday evening,
3 July, Sala Protomoteca Campidoglio
Riccardo
Giacconi
For
opening , five successive times, new highways for exploring the
Universe.
- Monday evening,
3 July, Sala Protomoteca Campidoglio
Roger
Penrose
For extending the mathematical and
geometrical grounds of General Relativity.
- Wednesday evening, 5
July, Sala Protomoteca Campidogli
Cecile
and Bryce DeWitt
For
promoting General Relativity and Mathematics research and inventing
the "summer school" concept.
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8th
Marcel Grossmann Meeting
June 1997, Jerusalem, Israel
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Institutional Award
Hebrew
University
for its role as a cradle of Science and Humanities and for hosting the
manuscripts of Albert Einstein.
- presented to M. Magidor, President of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Individual Awards
TULLIO
REGGE
for his contributions to the interface between mathematics and physics
leading to new fields of research of paramount importance in
relativisic astrophysics and particle physics.
FRANCIS
EVERITT
for leading the development of extremely precise space experiments
utilizing superconductmg technology to test General Relativity and the
Equivalence Principle.
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7th
Marcel Grossmann Meeting
June 1994,
Stanford, USA
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Institutional Award
Space
Telescope Science Institute
for its critical role in the direction and operation of
the Hubble Space Telescope, a truly unique international laboratory
for the investigation and testing of general relativity in the context
of modern astrophysics and cosmology.
- presented to Peter Stockman
Individual Awards
SUBRAHMANYAN
CHANDRASEKHAR
for his contributions to the analysis of gravitational
phenomena from Newton to Einstein and especially for leading the way
to relativistic astrophysics with the concept of critical mass for
gravitational collapse.
JIM
WILSON
for having built on his experience in nuclear physics,
thermonuclear reactions, and extensive numerical simulation to create
a new testing ground for the novel concepts of relativistic
astrophysics.
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6th
Marcel Grossmann Meeting
June 1991,
Kyoto, Japan
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Institutional Award
RITP
for keeping alive first in Hiroshima and them in Kyoto research in
relativity, cosmology, and relativistic field theory and the
development of a school of international acclaim.
- presented to Professor K. Tomita
Individual Awards
MINORU ODA
for participating in the pioneering work of the early sixties in
X-ray astronomy and for his subsequent molding of an agile and
diversified Japanese scientific space program investigating the
deepest aspects of relativistic astrophysics.
STEPHEN HAWKING
for his contributions to the understanding of spacetime
singularities and of the large scale structure of the Universe and of
its quantum origins.
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5th
Marcel Grossmann Meeting
August
1988, Perth, Australia
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Institutional
Award
The
University of Western Australia
for its contributions to relativistic astrophysics
- presented to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Robert Smith.
Individual
Awards
SATIO
HAYAKAWA
for his contributions to research in gamma, X-ray and infrared
radiation as well as cosmic rays.
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER
for his contributions to geometrodynamics and Einstein's visions.
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4th
Marcel Grossmann Meeting
1985, Rome, Italy
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Institutional Award
THE VATICAN
OBSERVATORY
for its contributions to the origin and development of
astrophysics
- presented to His Holiness Pope John Paul II.
Individual Awards
WILLIAM FAIRBANK
for his work in gravitation and low temperature physics.
ABDUS SALAM
for his work in unifying fundamental interactions.
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