The Gruber Prize in Cosmology, established in 2000, is one of three prestigious international awards worth US$500,000 awarded by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Since 2001, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology has been co-sponsored by the International Astronomical Union.

Recipients are selected by a panel from nominations that are received from around the world.

The Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize honors a leading cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosopher for theoretical, analytical or conceptual discoveries leading to fundamental advances in the field.

• 2000 Allan Sandage and Philip James E. Peebles
• 2001 Lord Martin Rees
• 2002 Vera Rubin
• 2003 Rashid Sunyaev director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
• 2004 Alan Guth and Andrei Linde
• 2005 James E. Gunn principal designer of the Hubble Space Telescope
• 2006 John Mather (co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team
• 2007 High-z Supernova Search Team, Supernova Cosmology Project, Brian P. Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter
• 2008 J. Richard Bond, director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program; Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
• 2009 Wendy Freedman, director of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Pasadena, California; Robert Kennicutt, director of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in England; and Jeremy Mould, professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne School of Physics
• 2010 Charles Steidel, the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, in recognition of his revolutionary studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe
• 2011 Simon White, Carlos Frenk, Marc Davis and George Efstathiou
• 2012 Charles L. Bennett (Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University) and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Team
• 2013 Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky
• 2014 Sidney van den Bergh, Jaan Einasto, Kenneth Freeman and R. Brent Tully^[1]
• 2015 John E. Carlstrom, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Lyman A. Page Jr^[2]
• 2016 Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and the entire Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovery team.^[3]
• 2017 Sandra M. Faber^[4]
• 2018 Nazzareno Mandolesi, Jean-Loup Puget and ESA Planck team.^[5]
• 2019 Nicholas Kaiser and Joseph Silk, "for their seminal contributions to the theory of cosmological structure formation and probes of dark matter".^[6]
• 2020 Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel^[7]
• 2021 Marc Kamionkowski, Uroš Seljak, and Matias Zaldarriaga^[8]
• 2022 Frank Eisenhauer^[9]
• 2023 Richard Ellis^[10]

• List of astronomy awards