MG 15 · 2018
Planck Scientific Collaboration (ESA)
The Planck Collaboration produced high-precision maps of the cosmic microwave background and major cosmological constraints.
2009, Europe
European Space Agency scientific collaboration
Jean-Loup Puget, Principal Investigator of the High Frequency Instrument
“For obtaining important constraints on inflation, primordial non-Gaussianity, CMB lensing, reionization, and Galactic dust and magnetic fields.”
MG XV, Rome, Italy
Work
Institutional Marcel Grossmann Awards recognize the infrastructures, collaborations, and research cultures that make major advances in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology possible.
The Planck Collaboration produced high-precision maps of the cosmic microwave background and major cosmological constraints.
The award highlights how sustained institutional work can create instruments, archives, scientific communities, and missions that become foundations for later discoveries.