The Crafoord Prize in Astronomy and Mathematics 2016
14 January, 2016
The Crafoord Prize in Astronomy and Mathematics 2016
ON, JAN 13, 2016 19:00 EST
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award
the 2016 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics to
Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
“for the development of contact and symplectic topology and groundbreaking discoveries of rigidity and flexibility phenomena.”
and the 2016 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy to
Roy Kerr, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Roger Blandford, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
“ for fundamental work on rotating black holes and their astrophysical consequences”
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