Tomalla Prize
The Tomalla Prize is a science prize awarded by the Swiss Tomalla Foundation for research into gravitation and general relativity . It is usually awarded every three years.
The award is named after Walter Tomalla , a businessman and doctor of engineering from Basel, who wanted to support gravity research in his will with the Tomalla Foundation for Gravity Research, founded in 1982 . The foundation also awards grants and other grants for gravitational research.
Award winners
- 1981 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1984 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- 1987 Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
- 1993 Allan Rex Sandage
- 1996 Werner Israel
- 2000 Gustav Andreas Tammann
- 2003 James Peebles
- 2008 Demetrios Christodoulou
- 2009 Vyacheslav Mukhanov , Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky
- 2013 Scott Tremaine
- 2016 Kip Thorne
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Individual evidence
- ↑ He came from Berlin, but moved to Switzerland after the Second World War.