MG 14 · 2015
European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA was honored for scientific space missions that transformed astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics.
1975, Paris, France
Paris, France
Director General Johann-Dietrich Woerner
“For the tremendous success of its scientific space missions in astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics.”
MG XIV, Rome, Italy
Work
Institutional Marcel Grossmann Awards recognize the infrastructures, collaborations, and research cultures that make major advances in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology possible.
ESA was honored for scientific space missions that transformed astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics.
The award highlights how sustained institutional work can create instruments, archives, scientific communities, and missions that become foundations for later discoveries.