Congratulations to Wendy, Rob and Jeremy.
Recipients of the 2009 Gruber Cosmology Prize
For calibrating the Hubble constant, using Cepheid pulsations and the Hubble Space Telescope to find that the current value of the Hubble is 72 km/sec/Mpc
$500,00 to Prof. Wendy Freedman (Carnegie), Robert Kennicutt (Cambridge) and Jeremy Mould (Melbourne)
Yes..congrats to all!
72 ... it's a nice number :)