THE SHAW PRIZE IN ASTRONOMY 2025
is awarded in equal shares to
JOHN RICHARD BOND
for their pioneering research in cosmology, in particular for their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. Their predictions have been verified by an armada of ground-, balloon- and space-based instruments, leading to precise determinations of the age, geometry, and mass-energy content of the universe.
27 May 2025
