New Horizons in Physics Prize

The New Horizons in Physics Prize has been awarded annually since 2012 and is awarded by the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation to younger scientists. It is endowed with $ 100,000. The foundation also awards the Fundamental Physics Prize and the Physics Frontiers Prize .

The Russian oligarch Juri Milner is behind the foundation . Steven Weinberg (2012) is also on the council , but does not participate in the selection of the winners.

Winner of the New Horizons in Physics Prize

• 2013
  • Niklas Beisert for the development of powerful, exact methods for the description of quantized gauge theories and associated string theories .
  • Davide Gaiotto for extensive new insights into duality, gauge field theory and geometry, especially for unexpected connections between theories in different dimensions .
  • Zohar Komargodski for his work on the dynamics of four-dimensional field theories and especially for his proof (with Adam Schwimmer) of the long open a-theorem .
• 2014
  • Freddy Cachazo for discovering numerous structures on which the scattering amplitudes in gauge theories and gravitation are based .
  • Shiraz Naval Minwalla for his pioneering contributions to string theory and quantum field theory .
  • Vyacheslav Rychkov for developing new techniques in conformal field theory .
• 2015
  • Sean Hartnoll , for the application of holographic methods to investigate strongly interacting quantum matter .
  • Philip C. Schuster and Natalia Toro , for simplified models for the search for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider and for the experimental search for dark sectors using high-intensity electron beams.
  • Horacio Casini , Marina Huerta , Shinsei Ryū and Tadashi Takayanagi , for fundamental ideas on entropy in quantum field theory and quantum gravity.
• 2016
  • B. Andrei Bernevig , Liang Fu and Xiao-Liang Qi for contributions to theoretical solid state physics, especially the application of topology for the properties of new phases of matter
  • Raphael Flauger and Leonardo Senatore for contributions to theoretical cosmology
  • Yuji Tachikawa for studies on supersymmetric quantum field theories
• 2017
  • Asimina Arvanitaki , Peter W. Graham and Surjeet Rajendran for fundamental investigations into a wide range of new experiments in elementary particle physics.
  • Simone Giombi and Xi Yin for work on gravitation with higher spin and its holographic connection to a new solvable field theory.
  • Frans Pretorius for computer simulations of the merging of black holes.
• 2018
  • Christopher Hirata , for fundamental contributions to understanding the formation of the first galaxies in the universe and for sharpening and applying the most powerful tools of precision cosmology.
  • Andrea Young , for the co-development of the van der Waals heterostructures and the new quantum Hall effect phases that he discovered with them.
  • Douglas Stanford , for fundamental new insights into quantum chaos and its relationship to gravity.
• 2019
  • Rana Adhikari (Caltech), Matthew Evans (MIT), Lisa Barsotti (MIT), for research on current and future Earth-based gravitational wave detectors.
  • Aron C. Wall (Stanford), Daniel Harlow (MIT), Daniel Louis Jafferis (Harvard), for fundamental insights into quantum information, quantum field theory and gravity.
  • Brian Metzger (Columbia University), for predicting electromagnetic signals from neutron star mergers and for his leadership role in the new research area of ​​multi-messenger astronomy.
• 2020
  • Xie Chen , Lukasz Fidkowski , Michael Levin , Max Metlitski , for significant contributions to the understanding of the topological states of matter and their connections to one another.
  • Jo Dunkley , Samaya Nissanke , Kendrick Smith , for the development of novel techniques to obtain information on basic physics from astronomical data.
  • Simon Caron-Huot , Pedro Vieira , for fundamental contributions to the understanding of quantum field theory.

Web links

• Award winners

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Komargodski, Schwimmer On renormalization group flow in four dimensions , Preprint 2011
2. ↑ Breakthrough Prize - Winners Of The 2020 Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced. In: breakthroughprize.org. September 5, 2019, accessed September 5, 2019 .