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Fred Kavli

The first Kavli Prize for astrophysics was awarded to Maarten Schmidt and Donald Lynden-Bell.


Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

The Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) is an independent laboratory of Stanford University, founded in 2003 by a gift by Fred Kavli and The Kavli Foundation.

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

In the early 2000s, the institute, formerly known as the Institute for Theoretical Physics, or ITP, was named for the Norwegian-American physicist and businessman Fred Kavli, in recognition of his donation of $7.5 million to the Institute.


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