Rob Knop is leaving academia to design galaxies for Second Life (or some such).
On his way out, he's getting a lovely parting gift: a share of the Gruber Prize in Cosmology.
Stop by and offer congratulations, or condolences, or both, as you feel appropriate.
Great for him that he's got a decent job lined up. Sucks that he's on a one-way trip out of the career that he really wanted, but wherever there's competition, some people are going to end up as roadkill, I guess (and it sounds like his new job could be really pretty cool).