Crafoord Prize [SEP] named after
Crafoord Prize
The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord. The Prize is awarded in partnership between the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Crafoord Foundation in Lund. The Academy is responsible for selecting the Crafoord Laureates. The prize is awarded in four categories: astronomy and mathematics; geosciences; biosciences, with particular emphasis on ecology; and polyarthritis, the disease from which Holger severely suffered in his last years.
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Honors.
Awards
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1957)
- Eddington Medal (1963)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1967)
- National Medal of Science (1970)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1972)
- Elliott Cresson Medal (1973)
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Bruce Medal (1975)
- Crafoord Prize (1991)
- Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2000)
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