MARCELL GROSSMANN AWARDS

a photo of the 3 MG Award recipients and one of John Wheeler

The recipients of the Marcel Grossmann Awards (from left): Peter Stockman, Jim Wilson, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

Individual Awards

Institutional Award

SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE

"for its critical role in the direction and operationof the Hubble Space Telescope,a truly unique international laboratory for the investigation and testing of general relativity in the context of modern astrophysics and cosmology"

Individualawards

SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR

"for his contributions to the analysis of gravitationalphenomena from Newton to Einstein and especially for leading the way to relativistic astrophysicswith the concept of critical mass for gravitational collapse"

JIM WILSON

"for having built on his experience in nuclear physics,thermonuclear reactions, and extensive numerical simulation to create a new testing ground for the novel concepts of relativistic astrophysics"

Each recipient is presented with a silver casting of the TESTsculpture by the artist A.Pierelli. The original casting was presented to HisHoliness Pope John Paul II on the first occasion of the MarcelGrossmann Awards.