Latest prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy 2008 with one half (mathematics) jointly to Maxim Kontsevich, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), Bures-sur-Yvette, France, and Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, “for their important contributions to mathematics inspired by modern theoretical physics", and the other half (astronomy) to Rashid Alievich Sunyaev, Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany, “for his decisive contributions to high-energy astrophysics and cosmology, in particular processes and dynamics around black holes and neutron stars and demonstration of the diagnostic power of structures in the background radiation".

Earlier prizes

From 1982-2005 the prize in astronomy and mathematics was
awarded according to the scheme:

astronomy in 2005, 1997, 1991 and 1985,
mathematics in 2001, 1994, 1988 and 1982.

In 2008 there was a joint prize in astronomy and mathematics with one half to the mathematicians Kontsevich and Witten and the other half to the astronomer Sunyaev.

Starting in 2012 there will be two separate prizes in astronomy
and mathematics awarded at the same time, each with a prize sum of SEK 4 million.

2005 James E. Gunn, P. James E. Peebles, Martin J. Rees

2001 Alain Connes

1997 Fred Hoyle, Edwin E. Salpeter

1994 Simon Donaldson, Shing-Tung Yau

1991 Allan R. Sandage

1988 Pierre Deligne, Alexander Grothendieck

1985 Lyman Spitzer, Jr.

1982 Vladimir Igorevich Arnold, Louis Nirenberg