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Prestigious award for physicist exploring the dawn of the Universe

  • May 22, 2025
  • 1 min read

Ryan and Max have studied the creation of the light elements by nuclear reactions in the first few minutes of the Universe’s expansion.  
Ryan and Max have studied the creation of the light elements by nuclear reactions in the first few minutes of the Universe’s expansion.  

Congratulations to Professor Ryan Cooke from Durham University's Department of Physics who is the joint recipient of the 2025 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize.


Ryan has been awarded the prize together with his collaborator and former PhD supervisor Professor Max Pettini (University of Cambridge).  


The prize recognises their groundbreaking work to perfect a method to measure the composition of the Universe moments after the Big Bang. 

 
 

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