Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is an award from The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation , a non-profit organization founded by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner .
Since July 2012, the prize has been the most financially endowed prize in the field of science. At 3 million US dollars (for each winner), the prize money is three times higher than that of the Nobel Prize. Nine prizes were awarded in the first year, with previous winners sitting on the selection committee for future winners.
In addition to the main prize, the foundation awards the $ 300,000 Physics Frontiers Prize (whose winners will also be on the Fundamental Prize's selection committee) and the $ 100,000 New Horizons in Physics Prize .
The prize is awarded by the Fundamental Physics Foundation, a non-profit organization . In addition to Milner, Steven Weinberg is also on their council .
The foundation awards similarly high prizes in the life sciences ( Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences ) and mathematics ( Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics ).
List of award winners
- 2012: Nima Arkani-Hamed , Alan Guth , Alexei Kitaev , Maxim Kontsevich , Andrei Linde , Juan Maldacena , Nathan Seiberg , Ashoke Sen , Edward Witten
- 2013: Alexander Polyakov
- 2014: Michael B. Green , John H. Schwarz
- 2015: Saul Perlmutter and Supernova Cosmology Project ; Brian P. Schmidt , Adam Riess and High-Z Supernova Search Team
- 2016:
- Kam-Biu Luk , Yifang Wang and the Daya Bay team
- Kōichirō Nishikawa and the K2K and T2K team (a neutrino experiment with reactor neutrinos at KEK and Super-Kamiokande )
- Atsuto Suzuki and the KamLAND team
- Arthur B. McDonald and the SNO team
- Takaaki Kajita , Yōichirō Suzuki and the Super-K team
- 2017: Joseph Polchinski , Andrew Strominger , Cumrun Vafa
- 2018: Charles L. Bennett , Gary Hinshaw , Norman Jarosik , Lyman Page Jr., David N. Spergel and the WMAP team
- 2019: Charles Kane and Eugene Mele
- 2020: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
Winner of the Special Fundamental Physics Prize
The prize is awarded at irregular intervals.
- 2013: Stephen Hawking for contributions on quantum gravity and cosmology and seven experimental particle physicists for contributions to the discovery of the Higgs particle at the LHC : Peter Jenni and Fabiola Gianotti from the ATLAS Collaboration, Michel Della Negra , Tejinder Singh Virdee , Guido Tonelli , Joe Incandela from the CMS collaboration and Lyn Evans
- 2016: Ronald WP Drever , Kip Thorne , Rainer Weiss and the LIGO collaboration for the detection of gravitational waves
- 2018: Jocelyn Bell Burnell for discovering pulsars
- 2019: Sergio Ferrara , Daniel Z. Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen for their work on supergravity
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fundamental Physics Prize: New award makes physicists millionaires. Retrieved September 29, 2012 .
- ^ 9 Scientists Receive a New Physics Prize. Retrieved September 29, 2012 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Breakthrough Prize - $ 3 Million Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics Awarded To Discoverers Of Supergravity. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .