Astrophysics and Mathematical Physics Prizes given -
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Published on: 7/15/2004
Last Visited: 8/4/2005
The Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics will be given jointly to Simon White of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich and George Efstathiou of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (UK).
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The astrophysics prize is awarded by the AIP and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and will be presented to Dr. Efstathiou and Dr. White at a future AAS meeting.
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The citations read as follows: The Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for 2005 is ,awarded jointly to George Efstathiou and Simon White, in recognition of their pioneering research, both together and separately, into the evolution of structure in the Universe from the earliest times to the present epoch, as examples of outstanding work in the field of astrophysics.,
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White was born in the UK and graduated from Cambridge (PhD, 1977).Since then he has held positions in the UK, US, Israel, France, and China.