 The T.E.S.T. sculpture
Each recipient is presented with a silver casting of the T.E.S.T. sculpture by the artist A. Pierelli. The original casting was presented to His Holiness Pope John Paul II on the first occasion of the Marcel Grossmann Awards in 1985.
All the winners of the Awards are listed below. The same informations are downloadable as a  booklet.
Institutional Award
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifique (IHES)
for its outstanding contributions to mathematics and theoretical physics, and notably for having renewed basic geometrical concepts, and having developed new mathematical and physical aspects of spacetime.
Presented to Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Individual Awards
Jaan Einasto
for pioneering contributions in the discovery of dark matter and the cosmic web and for fostering research in the historic Tartu Observatory.
Christine Jones
for her fundamental contributions to the X-ray studies of galaxies and clusters tracing their formation and evolution and for her role in collaborations using clusters to study dark matter and in analyzing the effects of outbursts from supermassive black holes on the intracluster gas.
Michael Kramer
for his fundamental contributions to pulsar astrophysics, and notably for having first confirmed the existence of spin-orbit precession in binary pulsars.
Institutional Award
Freie Universität Berlin
for the successful endeavour of re-establishing in the spirit of the Humboldt tradition freedom of thinking and teaching within a democratic society in a rapidly evolving cosmos.
Presented to Dr. Dieter Lenzen, President of FUB
Individual Awards
Roy Kerr
for his fundamental contribution to Einstein's theory of general relativity: The gravitational field of a spinning mass as an example of algebraically special metrics."
George Coyne
for his committed support for the international development of relativistic astrophysics and for his dedication to fostering an enlightened relationship between science and religion.
Joachim Träumper
for his outstanding scientific contributions to the physics of compact astrophysical objects and for leading the highly successful ROSAT mission which discovered more then 200,000 galactic and extragalactic X-ray sources: a major step in the observational capabilities of X-ray astronomy and in the knowledge of our universe.
Institutional Award
CBPF (Brazilian Center for Research in Physics)
For its role as a teaching and research institution and as a place originating fundamental physics ideas in the exploration of the universe.
Presented to its founders Cesar Lattes, José Leite Lopez and Jayme Tiomno.
Individual Awards
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and James W. York, Jr.
For separate as well as joint work in establishing the mathematical framework for proving the existence and uniqueness of solutions to Einstein's gravitational field equations.
Yuval Ne'eman
For his contributions to science, epistimology, mathematics and physics from subnuclear to space sciences.
Institutional Award
The Solvay Institutes (Solvay Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie)
For identifying and recording in discussions with the protagonists the crucial developments of physics and astrophysics in the twentieth century.
Presented to Jacques Solvay
Individual Awards
Riccardo Giacconi
For opening , five successive times, new highways for exploring the Universe.
Roger Penrose
For extending the mathematical and geometrical grounds of General Relativity.
Cecile and Bryce DeWitt
For promoting General Relativity and Mathematics research and inventing the "summer school" concept.
Institutional Award
Hebrew University
for its role as a cradle of Science and Humanities and for hosting the manuscripts of Albert Einstein.
Presented to M. Magidor, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Individual Awards
Tullio Regge
for his contributions to the interface between mathematics and physics leading to new fields of research of paramount importance in relativisic astrophysics and particle physics.
Francis Everitt
for leading the development of extremely precise space experiments utilizing superconducting technology to test General Relativity and the Equivalence Principle.
Institutional Award
Space Telescope Science Institute
for its critical role in the direction and operationof the Hubble Space Telescope, a truly unique international laboratory for the investigation and testing of general relativity in the context of modern astrophysics and cosmology.
Individual Awards
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
for his contributions to the analysis of gravitationalphenomena from Newton to Einstein and especially for leading the way to relativistic astrophysicswith the concept of critical mass for gravitational collapse.
Jim Wilson
for having built on his experience in nuclear physics,thermonuclear reactions, and extensive numerical simulation to create a new testing ground for the novel concepts of relativistic astrophysics.
Institutional Award
RITP
for keeping alive first in Hiroshima and them in Kyoto research in relativity, cosmology, and relativistic field theory and the development of a school of international acclaim.
Presented to Professor K. Tomita.
Individual Awards
Minoru Oda
for participating in the pioneering work of the early sixties in X-ray astronomy and for his subsequent molding of an agile and diversified Japanese scientific space program investigating the deepest aspects of relativistic astrophysics.
Stephen Hawking
for his contributions to the understanding of spacetime singularities and of the large scale structure of the Universe and of its quantum origins.
Institutional Award
The University of Western Australia
for its contributions to relativistic astrophysics .
Presented to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Robert Smith.
Individual Awards
Satio Hayakawa
for his contributions to research in gamma, X-ray and infrared radiation as well as cosmic rays.
John Archibald Wheeler
for his contributions to geometrodynamics and Einstein's visions.
Institutional Award
The Vatican Observatory
for its contributions to the origin and development of astrophysics.
Presented to His Holiness Pope John Paul II.
Individual Awards
William Fairbank
for his work in gravitation and low temperature physics.
Abdus Salam
for his work in unifying fundamental interactions.
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