The Dr. Tomalla Foundation for Gravity Research promotes research into gravity in Switzerland and in the world. It was founded in 1982 according to testamentary wishes of Dr. Walter Tomalla, an engineer from Basel, Switzerland. Every third year, the foundation awards prizes for exceptional research in gravitation and/or cosmology, and funds research fellows and visitors for gravity research at Swiss universities.
Tomalla Prize laureates List of Tomalla prize laureates:
2016 Kip Thorne 2013 Scott Tremaine - for his contribution to gravitational dynamics. 2009 Viatcheslav Mukhanov - for his contributions to inflationary cosmology and especially for the determination of the density perturbation spectrum from inflation. Alexei Starobinsky - for his pioneering contributions to inflationary cosmology and especially for the determination of the spectrum of gravitational waves generated during inflation. 2008 Demetrios Christodoulou 2003 Jim Peebles 2000 Gustav Tammann - for his efforts in measuring the expansion rate of the universe and especially for his pioneering work using Supernovae as standard candles. 1996 Werner Israel 1993 Allan Sandage 1987 Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. 1984 Andrei Sakharov - for his fundamental contribution to the problem of the matter - antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and his new ideas on gravity at a fundamental level (induced gravity). 1981 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
External links The Dr. Tomalla Foundation for Gravity Research
See also
List of physics awards
References