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The Crafoord Prizes in Mathematics and Astronomy 2012

FEB 03, 2012
Physics Today

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics 2012 to Jean Bourgain of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and Terence Tao of UCLA, “for their brilliant and groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, ergodic theory, number theory, combinatorics, functional analysis and theoretical computer science’. They have awarded the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy 2012 to Reinhard Genzel of the Max-Planck-Institute in Germany and Andrea Ghez of UCLA, “for their observations of the stars orbiting the galactic centre, indicating the presence of a supermassive black hole’.

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