Jean-Pierre Luminet, research director at French C.N.R.S (Paris Observatory) and Dominique Lambert, professor at Namur University (Belgium), have been awarded the Georges Lemaître prize by an international committee chaired by Prof. M. Crochet, Rector of the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). This is the third time that the prize instituted by the Georges Lemaître Foundation has been awarded. Former laureates have been

1995 : P.J.E. Peebles, Albert Einstein Science Chair at Princeton University (USA)
1997 : J.C. Duplessy, head of the Centre des Faibles radioactivités at Gif sur Yvette (France)

Profs. Luminet and Lambert were chosen for their contributions to cosmology and mathematics, and for their constant support for the phenomenological approach propounded by Georges Lemaître

The Georges Lemaître Prize is awarded at least once every two years, to a Belgian or foreign author who has made a significant contribution to increasing scientific knowledge in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics and space research.