Robinson Prize & Lectures in Cosmology
Awarded biennially, the prize was established in 1990 through the generosity of Philip Robinson, a Newcastle native and antiquarian book dealer, who had a particular interest in cosmology and in making cosmology accessible to broader audiences. Robinson, the Tyneside, England-born bookseller, gained an international reputation during his lifetime as a bibliographical scholar. The main Newcastle University library was named in his honour in 1989. The recipient gives a public lecture and seminars to students.
Previous Winners
2024-05 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Lecture: Dark matter through the looking glass of Homo Narrans
2011-12 Paul Davies, Lecture: Why is the universe bio-friendly?
2008-09 John Mather (Nobel Prize 2006), Lecture: From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and on to James Webb Space Telescope
2005-06 Andrei Linde (Gruber Prize 2004), Lecture: The Origin and the Fate of the Universe
2002-03 Kip Thorne (Nobel Prize 2017 with Rainer Weiss & Barry Barish), Lecture: Probing the Universe
1998-99 Alan Guth (Gruber Prize 2004), Lecture: Inflationary Cosmology
1996-98 George P. Efstathiou (Gruber Prize 2011), Lecture: The Fate of the Universe
1994-95 Rashid A. Sunyaev (Gruber Prize 2003), Lecture: Observing Black Holes
1992-93 Jim Peebles (Nobel Prize 2019), Lecture: The Expanding Universe and Wiggles from the Big Bang
1990-91 Martin Rees (Gruber Prize 2001), Lecture: Cosmic Evolution and the Fate of the Universe: Progress and Prospects in Cosmology