Crafoord Prize 2008: Winners

Recipients

1. Astronomy

   Rashid Sunyaev

   Physics

   for his decisive contributions to high energy astrophysics and cosmology, in particular processes and dynamics around black holes and neutron stars and demonstration of the diagnostic power of structures in the background radiation

2. Mathematics

   Maxim Kontsevich, Edward Witten

   Math

   for their important contributions to mathematics inspired by modern theoretical physics