Sunday 15 July 2012

Master of the universe?

WE seem to have been sleeping on the job while major honours were showered upon Simon White (PeB 62-68) of the Max Planck Institute. In 2008 he won the European Latsis Prize for his outstanding contribution to the field of astrophysics. This was followed in 2010 by the Born Medal for his contributions to cosmology, galaxy development and the theory of Lambda Cold Dark Matter. Then last year he and three colleagues (known collectively as the Gang of Four) shared the Gruber Cosmology Prize for their pioneering use of numerical simulations to model and interpret the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. Awestruck congratulations to him, however late in the day; is he, perhaps, a future Nobel Laureate?

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