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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