Mark Phillips received the Alumni Achievement Award on Oct. 27, 2023, for his pioneering supernova research that led to the reversal of a major scientific theory on the trajectory of the universe, and for the indelible legacy he has left for aspiring astronomers.
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Marc Kamionkowski
Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski is one of three physicists to be awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their contributions to methods essential for studying the early universe.
The prize recognizes Kamionkowski’s discovery of a mathematical means to use radiation from the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-a relic of the earliest days of the universe-to glean information about what happened as far back as the first fraction of a second of the universe’s existence. The method involves measuring polarization, or the degree to which an oscillating wave, bouncing up and down relative to the direction of travel, diverges from a strictly perpendicular orientation.
Credits: Photo courtesy of the researcher. Caption: Mark Vogelsberger and his colleagues created simulations showing that competing models of dark matter produce primordial star-forming regions that look very different from one another. Credits: Courtesy of the researchers
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Mark Vogelsberger, an associate professor of physics at MIT, has received the 2020 Buchalter Cosmology Prize in a collaboration led by Phillip Mocz, a postdoc at Princeton University. Their research presents a novel simulation of the early universe with a theorized ultralight, or “fuzzy,” dark matter particle. The Buchalter Prize awarded the researchers Third Prize and $2,500 for their boundary-pushing work in cosmology.