Oskar Klein Medal
The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture and the associated Oskar Klein Medal is a Swedish award in theoretical physics jointly awarded by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . It is named after Oskar Klein .
Award winners
With the title of the lecture
- 1988 - Chen Ning Yang , Symmetry and Physics
- 1989 - Steven Weinberg , Beyond the Standard Models
- 1990 - Hans Bethe , Theory of neutrinos from the sun
- 1991 - Alan Guth , Do the Laws of Physics Allow Us to Create a New Universe?
- 1992 - John Archibald Wheeler , Delayed Choice Experiments and the Lesson of the Quantum
- 1993 - Tsung-Dao Lee , no title given
- 1994 - not awarded, instead the Klein Symposium took place on Klein's 100th birthday
- 1995 - Nathan Seiberg , Exact results in four dimensional quantum field theory
- 1996 - Alexander Markowitsch Polyakow , Field theory as a universal language
- 1997 - James Peebles , Tests of the relativistic big bang cosmology
- 1998 - Edward Witten , Magic, mystery and matrix
- 1999 - Gerardus' t Hooft Can there be physics without experiments? Challenges and Pitfalls
- 2000 - David Gross , Towards a Theory of Everything
- 2001 - Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Linde , no title given
- 2002 - Martin Rees , From Simple Big Bang to Complex Chaos
- 2003 - Stephen Hawking , Can fundamental theory predict the universe?
- 2004 - Pierre Ramond , Sunshine at midnight: the neutrino saga
- 2005 - Yōichirō Nambu , Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking - a tension in natural laws
- 2006 - Vyacheslav Mukhanov , From Quantum Fluctuations to the Structure of the Universe
- 2007 - Gabriele Veneziano , String Theory, Gravity and Cosmology
- 2008 - Helen Quinn , Klein-Gordon (Scalar) Particles in the Universe
- 2009 - Peter Higgs , My life as a boson
- 2010 - Alexei Alexandrowitsch Starobinski , Four historical epochs and four fundamental constants of modern cosmology
- 2011 - Joseph Silk , From Here to Infinity: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe
- 2012 - Juan Maldacena , Quantum Chromodynamics, Strings and Black Holes
- 2013 - Frank Wilczek , Superfluidity and Symmetry Breaking: Past Glories, New Frontiers
- 2014 - Andrew Strominger , Conformal Symmetry in the Sky
- 2015 - Rashid Sunyaev , Unavoidable distortions in the spectrum of CMB and the Blackbody Photosphere of our Universe
- 2016 - Kip Thorne , Gravitational Waves: The Physics and Astrophysics of LIGO
- 2017 - Sheldon Glashow , Nobel Ideas in Particle Physics
- 2018 - Leonard Susskind , The Quantum Origins of Gravity
- 2019 - Lisa Randall , New Ideas for Dark Matter