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Cosmologists win Crafoord award

27 Jan 2005

Three cosmologists -- James Gunn, James Peebles and Martin Rees -- have shared the Crafoord Prize 2005 for their "contributions towards understanding the large-scale structure of the universe". The prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and recognizes research in areas that are not covered by the Nobel Prizes.

In the standard model of cosmology the big bang was followed by an extremely short period of exponen

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