Former Member Wins 2014 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

Daniel Eisenstein, Professor at Harvard University and former Member (1996-99) in the School of Natural Sciences, has received the 2014 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, which “recognizes significant breakthroughs in academic and scientific research resulting in a positive and profound impact on mankind.” Eisenstein shares this award with Shaun Cole, Professor at Durham University, and John A. Peacock, Professor at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, for their contributions to the measurements of features in the large-scale structure of galaxies used to constrain the cosmological model including baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions.