Crafoord Prize

Crafoord Prize 2012: Winners

Recipients

  1. Astronomy

    Reinhard Genzel, Andrea M. Ghez

    Physics

    for their observations of the stars orbiting the galactic centre, indicating the presence of a supermassive black hole

  2. Mathematics

    Jean Bourgain, Terence Tao

    Math

    for their brilliant and groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, ergodic theory, number theory, combinatorics, functional analysis and theoretical computer science