Carnegie Trustee Sandy Faber Awarded Gruber Prize
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Faber was awarded the lifetime achievement award for “her groundbreaking studies of the structure, dynamics, and evolution of galaxies.”
Former Carnegie fellow and current trustee, astronomer Sandra Faber, has been awarded the 2017 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize. She was awarded the lifetime achievement award for “her groundbreaking studies of the structure, dynamics, and evolution of galaxies.” Her work provided the impetus to study dark matter, the invisible material that makes up most of the mass of the universe, in addition to “ the recognition that black holes reside at the heart of most large galaxies."
Faber also has a long history of contributing to innovative telescope technology, and she has “aided and inspired the work of astronomers and cosmologists worldwide.”
The prize will be awarded this fall and it comes with $500,000 and a gold medal.