Crafoord Prize
Crafoord Prize 2012: Winners
Recipients
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Astronomy
Reinhard Genzel, Andrea M. Ghez
for their observations of the stars orbiting the galactic centre, indicating the presence of a supermassive black hole
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Mathematics
Jean Bourgain, Terence Tao
for their brilliant and groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, ergodic theory, number theory, combinatorics, functional analysis and theoretical computer science