MG 16 · 2021
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
MPE led eROSITA, enabling a major census of X-ray sources, clusters, and large-scale structure.
1963, Germany
Garching, Germany
Professor Peter Predehl, Principal Investigator of eROSITA
“For the creation of the world's best X-ray map of the entire sky as part of the SRG/eROSITA scientific program.”
MG XVI, online meeting
Work
Institutional Marcel Grossmann Awards recognize the infrastructures, collaborations, and research cultures that make major advances in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology possible.
MPE led eROSITA, enabling a major census of X-ray sources, clusters, and large-scale structure.
The award highlights how sustained institutional work can create instruments, archives, scientific communities, and missions that become foundations for later discoveries.