Monika Mościbrodzka was one of the coordinators of the EHT Polarimetry Working Group that published the first image of the black hole in M87 in polarized light in 2021. She is coordinator of the EHT Theory Working Group and was a member of the EHT Science Council. Previous winners of the Eddington Medal include George Lemaitre (Big Bang Theory), Stephen Hawking and Nobel laureate Roger Penrose.
Falcke is a co-founder of the EHT and currently a board member of the EHT. He coined the term "shadow of a black hole", and predicted back in 2000 the shape of the shadow that would be observed in 2019. Previous recipients of the Herschel Medal include pulsar explorer Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Nobel laureate Reinhard Genzel.
Sources: Radboud University & Royal Astronomical Society