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Peter Gruber FoundationThe Peter Gruber Foundation was founded in 1993 and established the first of its international prizes in 2000. The Foundation now supports five international awards: Cosmology; Genetics, Neuroscience; Justice and Women’s Rights. The 2006 Cosmology Prize was presented in August to NASA’s John Mather and the COBE team. In October it was announced that he will share the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Justice Prize was awarded in September to Aharon Barak, recently retired President of the Supreme Court of Israel. The Genetics and Neuroscience Prizes were awarded in October: Genetics to Elizabeth Blackburn for her work on cell aging and telomeres, and her science advocacy; Neuroscience to Masao Ito and Roger Nicoll for their contributions to revealing the biological bases of learning and memory. Women's Rights to Cecilia Medina, Sweatshop Watch, and UNAMG, Guatemalan women’s rights organization.
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