Laureate

Simon D. M. White

Born 1951 · United Kingdom · Male

Awards

  1. 2017

    Shaw Prize — Astronomy

    Physics

    For his contributions to understanding structure formation in the Universe. With powerful numerical simulations he has shown how small density fluctuations in the early Universe develop into galaxies and other nonlinear structures, strongly supporting a cosmology with a flat geometry, and dominated by dark matter and a cosmological constant.