MG 12 · 2009
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)
IHES was honored for its role in mathematics, theoretical physics, geometry, and spacetime studies.
1958, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
Bures-sur-Yvette, France
Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
“For outstanding contributions to mathematics and theoretical physics, renewing basic geometrical concepts and developing new mathematical and physical aspects of spacetime.”
MG XII, Paris, France
Work
Institutional Marcel Grossmann Awards recognize the infrastructures, collaborations, and research cultures that make major advances in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology possible.
IHES was honored for its role in mathematics, theoretical physics, geometry, and spacetime studies.
The award highlights how sustained institutional work can create instruments, archives, scientific communities, and missions that become foundations for later discoveries.