Premio Crafoord de Astronomía: ganadores por año

Años de premio

• 2024

  • Douglas Gough, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Conny Aerts

    for developing the methods of asteroseismology and their application to the study of the interior of the Sun and of other stars

• 2020

  • Eugene Parker

    for pioneering and fundamental studies of the solar wind and magnetic fields from stellar to galactic scales

• 2016

  • Roy Kerr, Roger Blandford

    for fundamental work concerning rotating black holes and their astrophysical consequences

• 2012

  • Reinhard Genzel, Andrea M. Ghez

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

• 2008

  • Rashid Sunyaev

    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

• 2005

  • James E. Gunn, James Peebles, Martin Rees

    for contributions towards understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe

• 1997

  • Fred Hoyle, Edwin Ernest Salpeter

    for their pioneering contributions to the study of nuclear processes in stars and stellar evolution

• 1991

  • Allan Sandage

    for his very important contributions to the study of galaxies, their populations of stars, clusters and nebulae, their evolution, the velocity-distance relation (or Hubble relation), and its evolution over time

• 1985

  • Lyman Spitzer

    for his fundamental pioneering studies of practically every aspect of the interstellar medium, culminating in the results obtained using the Copernicus satellite