The Gruber Foundation today recognized five scientists who have made significant contributions to the fields of cosmology, genetics, and neuroscience. Recipients of the Gruber International Prize Program will receive a total of $1.5 million for research that inspires and enables fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.
Recipients of the 2026 awards are Alexei V. Filippenko, a professor at the University of California - Berkeley, Ken'ichi Nomoto, a professor at The University of Tokyo, and Stanford Woosley, a professor at the University of California - Santa Cruz, the recipients of the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize; Alan G Hinnebusch, a Distinguished Investigator at the National Institutes of Health, recipient of the 2026 Gruber Genetics Prize; and John L.R. Rubenstein, a professor at the University of California - San Francisco, recipient of the 2026 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.
Patricia Gruber and her late husband, Peter Gruber, established an International Prize Program in 2000 to honor and encourage outstanding individuals in the sciences and human rights. In a succession plan to perpetuate this legacy, The Gruber Foundation was established at Yale in 2011.
All three prizes will be presented later this year.
