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Crafoord Prize

HONOR

A $500,000 prize for work that falls outside of Nobel qualifications.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Fred Hoyle
Astronomer
24-Jun-1915 20-Aug-2001 Steady-state universe
John Maynard Smith
Biologist
6-Jan-1920 19-Apr-2004 Applied game theory to evolutionary biology
P. James E. Peebles
Astronomer
25-Apr-1935   Galaxy formation
Edwin E. Salpeter
Astronomer
3-Dec-1924   Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography
Allan R. Sandage
Astronomer
18-Jun-1926   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


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