Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

The Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is awarded annually by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding achievements in the field of mathematical physics. It is considered to be one of the highest awards in this field. The prize pool is $ 7,500. It was donated in 1959 by the electrical engineer and head of the engineering company Sofinas Dannie Heineman (1872–1962), who worked for AEG in Germany at the turn of the century.

There has also been the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics since 1979 .

Award winners

• 1959 Murray Gell-Mann
• 1960 Aage Niels Bohr
• 1961 Marvin Leonard Goldberger
• 1962 Léon Van Hove
• 1963 Keith Brueckner
• 1964 Tullio Regge
• 1965 Freeman Dyson
• 1966 Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Bogolyubov (NNBogoliubov)
• 1967 Gian-Carlo Wick
• 1968 Sergio Fubini
• 1969 Arthur Wightman
• 1970 Yōichirō Nambu
• 1971 Roger Penrose
• 1972 James Bjorken
• 1973 Kenneth Wilson
• 1974 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1975 Ludwig Dmitrijewitsch Faddejew (mostly quoted as Ludwig Faddeev )
• 1976 Stephen Hawking
• 1977 Steven Weinberg
• 1978 Elliott H. Lieb
• 1979 Gerardus' t Hooft
• 1980 Arthur Jaffe , James Glimm
• 1981 Jeffrey Goldstone
• 1982 John Clive Ward
• 1983 Martin Kruskal
• 1984 Robert Griffiths
• 1985 David Ruelle
• 1986 Alexander Markowitsch Polyakow (Polyakov)
• 1987 Rodney Baxter , exactly solvable models of statistical mechanics
• 1988 Julius Wess , Bruno Zumino
• 1989 John Stewart Bell
• 1990 Jakow Grigoryevich Sinai
• 1991 Jürg Fröhlich , Thomas C. Spencer
• 1992 Stanley Mandelstam
• 1993 Martin Gutzwiller
• 1994 Richard Arnowitt , Stanley Deser , Charles Misner
• 1995 Roman Jackiw
• 1996 Roy J. Glauber , for quantum optics and scattering at short wavelengths
• 1997 Harry Lehmann
• 1998 Edward Witten , Nathan Seiberg for insights into the dynamics of strongly interacting supersymmetric theories and string theories and in particular for the investigation of dualities.
• 1999 Barry McCoy , Tai Tsun Wu , Alexander Borissowitsch Samolodtschikow (Zamolodchikov)
• 2000 Sidney Coleman for decisive contributions to modern elementary particle physics, in particular symmetry breaking, the role of internal and space-time symmetries and the structure of the solutions of important models of quantum field theory
• 2001 Vladimir Igorewitsch Arnold , for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the dynamics and the singularities of images.
• 2002 John Schwarz , Michael Green for fundamental contributions to superstring theory
• 2003 James W. York , Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat for proofs of uniqueness and existence of general relativity solutions for a range of sources, as well as formulations that improve numerical treatment.
• 2004 Gabriele Veneziano , for his pioneering work in the discovery of models of dual resonance, which developed into string theory and a basis for quantum gravity.
• 2005 Giorgio Parisi for fundamental discoveries in wide areas of elementary particle physics, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, especially his work on spin glasses and disordered systems.
• 2006 Daniel Z. Freedman , Peter van Nieuwenhuizen , Sergio Ferrara for the construction of supergravity and its development
• 2007 Joseph Polchinski , Juan Maldacena for important developments in string theory, quantum field theory, gravitation.
• 2008 Mitchell Feigenbaum for developing the theory of deterministic chaos
• 2009 Carlo Becchi , Alain Rouet , Raymond Stora and Igor Wiktorowitsch Tjutin for the discovery and use of the BRST symmetry for the quantization of gauge theories, thus providing a fundamental and essential tool for further developments
• 2010 Michael Aizenman for his development of the random current approach to correlations, which was widely used, particularly in his rigorous, non-perturbation-theoretical proof of the triviality of field theories. ${\displaystyle \phi ^{4}}$
• 2011 Herbert Spohn for his contributions to the statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium.
• 2012 Giovanni Jona-Lasinio for his contributions on the relationships between statistical mechanics, field theory and theory of elementary particles
• 2013 Michio Jimbō and Tetsuji Miwa for their fundamental developments in the field of integrable systems and their correlation functions in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, using quantum groups, algebraic analysis and deformation theory .
• 2014 Gregory W. Moore for outstanding contributions to mathematical physics with a great impact in many areas, from string theory to supersymmetric gauge theory, conformal field theory, condensed matter physics and the theory of four-dimensional manifolds.
• 2015 Pierre Ramond for pioneering foundational discoveries in supersymmetry and superstring theory, in particular the dual model of fermions and the theory of the Kalb-Ramond field.
• 2016 Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa
• 2017 Carl M. Bender
• 2018 Barry Simon
• 2019 Bill Sutherland , Francesco Calogero and Michel Gaudin
• 2020 Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Web links

• Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. American Physical Society (APS), accessed October 8, 2016 (includes list of award winners). 
• Minna James Heineman Foundation. German Foundation Center, accessed on June 22, 2016 (with biography of the founder). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official laudation: for their profound developments in integrable systems and their correlation functions in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, making use of quantum groups, algebraic analysis and deformation theory.