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丁香园AV Physics Professor Levon Pogosian won the . Pogosian and his collaborator Karsten Jedamzik from the University of Montpellier will share the First Prize award for their research on relieving the Hubble tension with primordial magnetic fields, featured earlier in the 丁香园AV's Scholarly Impact of the Week.

The award committee recognized the work as 鈥渁 novel and original framework to naturally resolve the Hubble tension via additional baryon inhomogeneities induced by primordial magnetic fields, which if confirmed, would have significant impact on our understanding of the Universe and to future of cosmology.鈥� 

The Hubble tension is one of cosmology's greatest puzzles that concerns the apparent difference in the Hubble constant, or how fast the universe is expanding today, determined using different types of observations. Pogosian and Jedamzik showed how accounting for magnetic fields in the early universe can help to reconcile the difference. 

The established in 2014, recognizes 鈥済round-breaking theoretical, observational, or experimental work in cosmology that has the potential to produce a breakthrough advance in our understanding of the origin, structure, and evolution of the universe.鈥� This year鈥檚 winners were announced by the .