Laureate
Simon D. M. White
Born 1951 · United Kingdom · Male
Awards
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2017
Shaw Prize — Astronomy
PhysicsFor 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.