Rob Knop is leaving academia to design galaxies for Second Life (or some such).
On his way out, he's getting a lovely parting gift: a share of the Gruber Prize in Cosmology.
Stop by and offer congratulations, or condolences, or both, as you feel appropriate.
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Here's something very cool: an award in physics that went to the groups, not to just the bigwigs who lead the group. It's call the Gruber Prize in Cosmology. Rob Knop writes about it:
My SciBling Rob Knop is leaving the academic circus for a cool job: designing Universes or some such astronomical stuff on Second Life.
Congratulations to Rob Knop for sharing in this year's Gruber Prize in Cosmology!
Great for him that he's got a decent job lined up. Sucks that he's on a one-way trip out of the career that he really wanted, but wherever there's competition, some people are going to end up as roadkill, I guess (and it sounds like his new job could be really pretty cool).