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The Prix Georges Lemaître is an award created in 1995, in celebration of the centenary of the birth in 1894 of Georges Lemaître. The Association des Anciens et Amis de l'Université catholique de Louvain (Association of the Alumni and Friends of the Université catholique de Louvain) initiated the award, as well as the Fondation Georges Lemaître (Georges Lemaître Foundation). The prize, endowed with 25,000 euros as of 2003, is awarded every two years to a scientist who has made a remarkable contribution to développement et à la diffusion des connaissances dans les domaines de la cosmologie, de l'astronomie, de l'astrophysique, de la géophysique, ou de la recherche spatiale (development and dissemination of knowledge in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics, or space science). The winner is chosen by an international jury of scientists, chaired by the rector of the Université catholique de Louvain.

== List of recipients == 1995 — Philip James Edwin Peebles, astrophysicist and cosmologist 1997 — Jean-Claude Duplessy, geochemist and climatologist 1999 — Jean-Pierre Luminet, astrophysist, and Dominique Lambert, philosopher of science 2001 — Kurt Lambeck, geophysicist 2003 — Alain Hubert, explorer and climatologist 2005 — Édouard Bard, climatologist 2007 — Susan Solomon, atmospheric chemist and climatologist 2009 — Jean Kovalevsky, astronomer 2010 — André Berger, climatologist 2012 — Michael Heller, cosmologist 2015 — Anny Cazenave, geophysicist, and Jean-Philippe Uzan, theoretical physicist and cosmologist 2017 — Kip Thorne, theoretical physicist 2019 — George F. R. Ellis, theoretical physicist and cosmologist 2021 — hiatus due to COVID19 pandemic 2023 — Sheperd S. Doeleman, astrophysicist

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