The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2017

 

is awarded to

 

SIMON D M WHITE

 

for his contributions to understanding structure formation in the Universe. With powerful numerical simulations he has shown how small density fluctuations in the early Universe develop into galaxies and other nonlinear structures, strongly supporting a cosmology with a flat geometry, and dominated by dark matter and a cosmological constant.

 

23 May 2017

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