Awards
Laureates
14 meetings · 42 individual awardees · 17 institutional awardees
TEST Trophy
Each recipient is presented with a silver casting of TEST, the sculpture by Attilio Pierelli. The original casting was presented to His Holiness Pope John Paul II on the first occasion of the Marcel Grossmann Awards.
TEST stands for Traction of Events in Space-Time. The sculpture grew from the collaboration between Remo Ruffini and Attilio Pierelli, translating computer-calculated geodesics around a Kerr black hole into a solid artistic form. It embodies the Marcel Grossmann tradition of joining exact science, geometry, and artistic intuition.

MG XVII
17th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2024 · Pescara, Italy
Individual Awards

Di Li
Individual“For his groundbreaking contributions to the scientific definition of the most sensitive radio telescope and his numerous innovations in characterizing the dynamic universe, resulting in precise measurements of the interstellar magnetic field and advancing the field of fast radio bursts into a high-statistics era.”

Christopher Lee Fryer
Individual“For his pioneering and groundbreaking theoretical and numerical simulation contributions that have advanced our understanding of supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and binary stellar evolution connecting them.”
MG XVI
16th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2021 · online meeting
Individual Awards

Demetrios Christodoulou
Individual“For his many lasting contributions to the foundation of mathematical physics including the dynamics of relativistic gravitational fields.”

Gerard 't Hooft
Individual“For his persistent devotion to the study of the quantum field theory boundary conditions at the black hole horizon.”

Tsvi Piran
Individual“For extending Relativistic astrophysics across international frontiers, a true companion in the search for the deeper meaning of Einstein's great theory.”

Steven Weinberg
Individual“For unwavering support for the MG meetings since their inception, a true companion in the search for the deeper meaning of Einstein's great theory.”
Institutional Awards

S.A. Lavochkin Association
Institution“For the creation of the world's best X-ray map of the entire sky as part of the SRG/eROSITA scientific program.”

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
Institution“For the creation of the world's best X-ray map of the entire sky as part of the SRG/eROSITA scientific program.”

Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences
Institution“For the creation of the world's best X-ray map of the entire sky as part of the SRG/eROSITA scientific program.”
MG XV
15th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2018 · Rome, Italy
Individual Awards

Lyman Page
Individual“For his collaboration with David Wilkinson in realizing the NASA Explorer WMAP mission and as founding director of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.”

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev
Individual“For the development of theoretical tools in the scrutinising, through the CMB, of the first observable electromagnetic appearance of our Universe.”

Shing-Tung Yau
Individual“For the proof of the positivity of total mass in the theory of general relativity and perfecting as well the concept of quasi-local mass, for his proof of the Calabi conjecture, for his continuous inspiring role in the study of black holes physics.”
Institutional Awards

Planck Scientific Collaboration (ESA)
Institution“For obtaining important constraints on inflation, primordial non-Gaussianity, CMB lensing, reionization, and Galactic dust and magnetic fields.”

Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University
Institution“To HEPL for having developed interdepartmental activities at Stanford University at the frontier of fundamental physics, astrophysics and technology.”
MG XIV
14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2015 · Rome, Italy
Individual Awards

Ken'ichi Nomoto
Individual“For heralding the role of binary systems in the evolution of massive stars.”

Martin Rees
Individual“For fostering Research in black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology.”

Yakov G. Sinai
Individual“For applying the mathematics of chaotic systems to physics and cosmology.”

Sachiko Tsuruta
Individual“For pioneering the physics of hot neutron stars and their cooling.”

Chen-Ning Yang
Individual“For deepening Einstein's geometrical approach to physics in the best tradition of Paul Dirac and Hermann Weyl.”

Tsung-Dao Lee
Individual“For his work on white dwarfs motivating Enrico Fermi's return to astrophysics and guiding the basic understanding of neutron star matter and fields.”
MG XIII
13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2012 · Stockholm, Sweden
Individual Awards

David Arnett
Individual“For exploring the nuclear physics and yet unsolved problems of the endpoint of thermonuclear evolution of stars, leading to new avenues of research in physics and astrophysics.”

Vladimir Belinski
Individual“For the discovery of a general solution of the Einstein equations with a cosmological singularity of an oscillatory chaotic character known as the BKL singularity.”

Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
Individual“For the discovery of a general solution of the Einstein equations with a cosmological singularity of an oscillatory chaotic character known as the BKL singularity.”

Filippo Frontera
Individual“For guiding the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Project on board the BeppoSAX satellite, which led to the discovery of GRB X-ray afterglows, and to their optical identification.”
MG XII
12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2009 · Paris, France
Individual Awards

Jaan Einasto
Individual“For pioneering contributions in the discovery of dark matter and cosmic web and fostering research in the historical Tartu Observatory.”

Christine Jones
Individual“For her fundamental contributions to the X-ray studies of galaxies and clusters tracing their formation and evolution and for her role in collaborations using clusters to study dark matter and in analyzing the effects of outbursts from supermassive black holes on the intracluster gas.”

Michael Kramer
Individual“For his fundamental contributions to pulsar astrophysics, and notably for having first confirmed the existence of spin-orbit precession in binary pulsars.”
MG XI
11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2006 · Berlin, Germany
Individual Awards

Roy Kerr
Individual“For his fundamental contribution to Einstein's theory of general relativity: The gravitational field of a spinning mass as an example of algebraically special metrics.”

George Coyne
Individual“For his committed support for the international development of relativistic astrophysics and for his dedication to fostering an enlightened relationship between science and religion.”

Joachim Trümper
Individual“For his outstanding scientific contributions to the physics of compact astrophysical objects and for leading the highly successful ROSAT mission which discovered more then 200,000 galactic and extragalactic X-ray sources.”
MG X
10th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2003 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Individual Awards

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Individual“For separate as well as joint work in establishing the mathematical framework for proving the existence and uniqueness of solutions to Einstein's gravitational field equations.”

James W. York Jr.
Individual“For separate as well as joint work in establishing the mathematical framework for proving the existence and uniqueness of solutions to Einstein's gravitational field equations.”

Yuval Ne'eman
Individual“For his contributions to science, epistimology, mathematics and physics from subnuclear to space sciences.”
MG IX
9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
2000 · Rome, Italy
Individual Awards

Cecile DeWitt-Morette
Individual“For promoting General Relativity and Mathematics research and inventing the summer school concept.”

Bryce DeWitt
Individual“For promoting General Relativity and Mathematics research and inventing the summer school concept.”

Riccardo Giacconi
Individual“For opening, five successive times, new highways for exploring the Universe.”

Roger Penrose
Individual“For extending the mathematical and geometrical foundations of General Relativity.”
MG VIII
8th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
1997 · Jerusalem
Individual Awards

Tullio Regge
Individual“For his contributions to the interface between mathematics and physics leading to new fields of research of paramount importance in relativisic astrophysics and particle physics.”

Francis Everitt
Individual“For leading the development of extremely precise space experiments utilizing superconducting technology to test General Relativity and the Equivalence Principle.”
MG VII
7th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
1994 · Stanford, United States
Individual Awards

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Individual“For his contributions to the analysis of gravitational phenomena from Newton to Einstein and especially for leading the way to relativistic astrophysics with the concept of critical mass for gravitational collapse.”

James Wilson
Individual“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.”
MG VI
6th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
1991 · Kyoto, Japan
Individual Awards

Minoru Oda
Individual“For participating in the pioneering work of the early sixties in X-ray astronomy and for his subsequent molding of an agile and diversified Japanese scientific space program investigating the deepest aspects of relativistic astrophysics.”

Stephen Hawking
Individual“For his contributions to the understanding of spacetime singularities and of the large scale structure of the Universe and of its quantum origins.”
MG V
5th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
1988 · Perth, Australia
Individual Awards
MG IV
4th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
1985 · Rome, Italy















