Briefs Princeton physicist Phillip James Peebles has been named one of the first two recipients of the Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation. Peebles, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus, was recognized for his work in explaining the origin and structure of the universe. In the prize's first year, the foundation gave two awards, one to Peebles and the other to Allan Sandage of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Ziolkowski is the Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages and the former dean of the Graduate School. Nassau notes The Bulletin is published weekly during the academic year, except during University breaks and exam weeks, by the Office of Communications, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
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