HONOR

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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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