HINSHAW, Gary - Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia

Professor Gary Hinshaw is widely recognized as one of the premier scientists in the world striving to understand the nature and contents of the universe. Over the past twenty-five years he has led the analysis teams on two major prize-winning experiments that have culminated in the standard model of cosmology; a description, in exquisite detail, that encapsulates our current knowledge of the universe.