Carnegie's Wendy Freedman co-recipient of Gruber Cosmology Prize

		IMAGE: Wendy Freedman is the Crawford H.Greenewalt chair/director of the Carnegie Observatories. Click here for more information.

Pasadena, CA—The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation awarded the 2009 Cosmology Prize to Carnegie's Wendy Freedman; Robert Kennicutt of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge; and Jeremy Mould at the University of Melbourne School of Physics. The prize is for their work defining the Hubble constant—the rate at which the universe is expanding.