AWARDS.

This article focuses on various awards related to scientific research. Epidemiologist William H. Foege, a veteran of the campaign to wipe out smallpox has been awarded the National Academy of Sciences' highest honor, the Public Welfare Medal. Foege's work on smallpox eradication in Africa in the 1960s led to the successful ring vaccination strategy of inoculating close contacts of infected people. Princeton University's James Gunn and James Peebles and Cambridge University's Martin Rees will share the 2005 Crafoord Prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for work on how the universe evolved from a smooth primordial soup of particles and radiation into the present cacophony of galaxies and clusters.