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June 20, 2025
Richard Bond Awarded 2025 Shaw Prize.
The 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy has been jointly awarded to Professor Richard Bond at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and the University of Toronto, Canada and George Efstathiou, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, for their seminal research in cosmology, including studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background.
CITA Communications and Events Coordinator, Lyuba Encheva writes,
This work has allowed scientists to confirm that the universe’s geometry is nearly flat, meaning that the curvature of space-time is essentially zero, determine its age to within 0.15% (approximately 13.8 billion years), measure its expansion rate with 0.5% precision, and quantify the amount of mysterious dark energy to better than 1%.
Beyond his seminal CMB work, Professor Bond has made other profound contributions recognized by the Shaw Prize. He co-introduced the concept of the “cosmic web”— the vast network of filaments connecting galaxies and galaxy clusters. He also developed key mathematical theories for understanding how galaxies cluster and made fundamental contributions to understanding the inflationary phase of the very early universe.
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