Essays and abstracts. The collection comprises a complete set of essays submitted to the Gravity Research Foundation's annual essay contest on gravitation, its theory, applications or effects. Also included are abstracts of award winning and honorable mention essays from 1961-2006. The winners of first prize, in chronological order (1949-2006), are: David B. Wittry, Richard A. Ferrell, Myron Jordan Lover, Gabor Strasser, Bryce S. DeWitt, Stanley Richard Arnowitt, Frederick J. Belinfante, Philip Morrison and Thomas Gould, Guiseppe Cocconi and Edwin Salpeter, J. Weber, Lloyd Motz, Winston H. Bostick, G.M. Clemence, Joseph W. Weinberg and Gerald E. Tauber, Banesh Hoffmann, Kurt Just, Peter R. Phillips, P.A. Sturrock, David Layzer, V.W. Hughes and W.C. Williams, P.A. Feldman and J.R. Gribbin, Stephen W. Hawking, John Faulkner, Arthur E. Fischer, Joseph Silk, Roger Penrose, Peter Kafka and Peter Mészáros, Abhay Ashtekar, R. Brout, F. Englert and E. Gunzig, G.F.R. Ellis, D.N. Schramm, Jacob D. Beckenstein, Gary T. Horowitz, Jeeva Anandan, Lawrence M. Krauss; Li Zhi Fang and Humitaka Sato (1985); M.J. Bowick, L. Smolin and L.C.R. Wijewardhana (1986); Tanmay Vachaspati (1987); Itzhak Bars and Christopher N. Pope (1988); Huei Peng and Douglas G. Torr (1989); Bruce Allen (1990); Michael S. Turner (1991); Robert M. Wald (1992); George F. Smoot and Paul J. Steinhardt (1993); T. Damour and A. M. Polyakov (1994); Gary T. Horowitz and Robert Myers (1995); D. V. Ahluwalia and C. Burgard (1996); Robert Myers (1997); Viqar Husain (1998); John Ellis, N.E. Mavromatos and D.V. Nanopoulos (1999); Arthur Lue and Erick J. Weinberg (2000); Csaba Csáki, Joshua Ehrlich and Christophe Grojean (2001); Steven B. Giddings (2002); Martin Bojowald (2003); Maulik Parikh (2004); John Ellis, Nikolaos E. Mavromatos, and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos (2005); Vijay Balasubramanian, Donald Marolf, and Moshe Rozali (2006).
