# 2020 Gruber Prize in Cosmology has been awarded to Harvard's Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel of the Max Planck Institute May 06, 2020 - [ News ](/news-categories/news) Citations reads: "The 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Lars Hernquist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Volker Springel, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, for their defining contributions to cosmological simulations, a method that tests existing theories of, and inspires new investigations into, the formation of structures at every scale from stars to galaxies to the universe itself." Press release: See also:- [ Faculty ](/announcements/faculty) - [ Prizes ](/filter_by/prizes) - [ 2020 ](/news-date/2020) - [ May ](/news-date/may-2) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)