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Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation Announces Physics Frontiers and New Horizons in Physics Prizes Along With Two Special Prizes
The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation Selection Committee, which is comprised of prior recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize and includes Nima Arkani-Hamed, Alan Guth , Alexei Kitaev , Maxim Kontsevich , Andrei Linde , Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg , Ashoke Sen and Edward Witten , is pleased to announce:
1. The laureates of 2013 are:
, and for the theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of topological insulators.
for his many discoveries in field theory and string theory including the conformal bootstrap, magnetic monopoles, instantons, confinement/de-confinement, the quantization of strings in non-critical dimensions, gauge/string duality and many others. His ideas have dominated the scene in these fields during the past decades.
for his contributions in many areas of quantum field theory and string theory. His discovery of D-branes has given new insights into the nature of string theory and quantum gravity, with consequences including the AdS/CFT correspondence.
2. Laureates of the 2013 will become nominees for the 2013 The winner of the will be announced by the Selection Committee at a prize ceremony that will take place at CERN on March 20, 2013 .
3. The laureates who do not go on to be awarded the will each receive $300,000 and will automatically be re-nominated for the each year for the next 5 years.
4. The laureates of 2013 are:
for the development of powerful exact methods to describe a quantum gauge theory and its associated string theory.
for far-reaching new insights about duality, gauge theory, and geometry, and especially for his work linking theories in different dimensions in most unexpected ways.
for his work on the dynamics of four-dimensional field theories. In particular, his proof (with Schwimmer) of the "a-theorem" has solved a long-standing problem, leading to deep new insights.
Each of the laureates will receive $100,000 .
5. In addition, the Selection Committee, foregoing the regular nomination process, announces the laureates of two
of $3,000,000 each:
One to for his discovery of Hawking radiation from black holes, and his deep contributions to quantum gravity and quantum aspects of the early universe.
One to be shared by the leaders of the LHC project, CMS and ATLAS experiments from the time the LHC was approved by the CERN Council in 1994, including
, (ATLAS),
, ,
, (CMS) and
(LHC), for their leadership role in the scientific endeavour that led to the discovery of the new Higgs-like particle by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
6. All prizes will be funded by the Milner Foundation
said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a member of the Selection Committee.
said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer .
commented Yuri Milner .
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About the Prizes
The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established by the Milner Foundation and dedicated to advancing our knowledge of the Universe at the deepest level by awarding annual prizes for scientific breakthroughs, as well as communicating the excitement of fundamental physics to the public. According to the Foundation's rules, laureates of all prizes are chosen by a Selection Committee, which is comprised of prior recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize. The Selection Committee for the 2013 prizes is comprised of the following:
Information on the Fundamental Physics Prize is available at: http://www.fundamentalphysicsprize.org
i. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its member states are Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , the Czech Republic , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Slovakia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a candidate for accession. Israel and Serbia are associate members in the pre-stage to membership. India , Japan , the Russian Federation , the United States of America , Turkey , the European Commission and UNESCO have observer status.
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