Beatty, James J. [2012]
The Ohio State University
Citation: For contributions to cosmic ray astrophysics, including leadership roles in the design, construction, and operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory, balloon-borne studies of cosmic ray antiprotons and positrons, and in searches for high energy neutrinos using radio techniques

Fryxell, Bruce [2012]
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Citation: For his work disseminating computational methods to the field of astrophysics and applying these methods to a wide range of astrophysics from supernovae to X-ray binaries

Holzapfel, William L. [2012]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For his contributions to experimental studies of the early universe, notably cosmic microwave background anisotropies and its polarization, and Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

Kaloper, Nemanja [2012]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For numerous and imaginative contributions to theoretical cosmology, particularly for the pioneering work in the physics and cosmology of braneworlds. for important contributions to the early universe inflation and its signatures, creative contributions to the understanding of dark energy and an elucidation of the axiverse

Kazanas, Demosthenes [2012]
NASA / GSFC
Citation: For diverse contributions to Astrophysics, ranging from a 1980 independent resolution, of the cosmological horizon problem using the vacuum energy of spontaneously broken gauge theory -- to the recent idea that AGN appearance depends on the properties of MHD winds launched from their accretion disks

Knox, Lloyd E. [2012]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For motivating major observations (WMAP and Planck), developed widely-using data analysis tools, providing insightful interpretations of data, and calculating the impact of astrophysical processes on the microwave sky. He currently leads the US Planck team estimating cosmological parameters, and works with the South Pole Telescope team measuring signals he predicted over the past 15 years

Newberg, Heidi Jo [2012]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Citation: For her contributions to our understanding of the structure of the Milky Way galaxy and the universe and for the development of software and hardware infrastructure for measuring and extracting meaningful information from large astronomical survey data sets

Tegmark, Max [2012]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his contributions to cosmology, including precision measurements from cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering data, tests of inflation and gravitation theories, and the development of a new technology for low-frequency radio interferometry

Wang, Yun [2012]
University of Oklahoma
Citation: For her leadership in dark energy research, especially in developing a robust and consistent framework for analysing and interpreting cosmological data to place model-independent constraints on dark energy, and in optimizing the science return of planned space missions to probe dark energy