Gravity prizes

On June 1, the Gravity Research Foundation announced the winners of its sixteenth series of annual awards for essays on gravity. Kurt Just of the University of Arizona won the first award of $1000 for his essay on “Multi‐baryons and Very Massive Stars”. The second award ($300) was given to Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University for “The Gravitational Collapse of the Universe”, and Joseph Silk of the Harvard College Observatory received $200 (third prize) for “Local Irregularities in a Gödel Universe and Mach’s Principle”. Robert L. Forward, Curtis C. Bell, and J. Roger Morris of Hughes Research Laboratories won $150 for “Rotating Gravitational Sensors” and Chi‐yuen Wang of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory received $100 for the “Origin of the Undulations in the Earth’s Satellite Gravitational Potential”.