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Worth USD$3 million, the prize is the most lucrative physics prize in the world [4] [5] and is more than twice the amount given to the Nobel Prize awardees. [6] Unlike the annual Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Special Breakthrough Prize may be awarded at any time for outstanding achievements, while the prize money is still USD$3 ...
Jani was a co-recipient of the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to "Сontributors who are authors of the paper Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger (Physical Review Letters, 11 February 2016) and contributors who also made important contributions to the success of LIGO." – 2016 [3] [7]
The Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by the Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of scientific advances. [1] [2] The awards are part of several "Breakthrough" initiatives founded and funded by Yuri Milner and his wife Julia Milner, along with Breakthrough Initiatives and Breakthrough Junior Challenge.
In 2012 he was an inaugural awardee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner. [18] He was one of six physicists featured in the award-winning 2013 documentary film Particle Fever, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner. [6] In 2015, he was jointly awarded the 2015 Dirac Medal by ICTP. [7] In 2017, he was, together with Xiao-Gang Wen, the winner of the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. [8]
Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016) [2 ... equivalence principle at the level of 10 −12 ... principles for a new class of measurement, allowing ...
In 2019 the three were awarded a special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics of $3 million [7] for the discovery. [8] He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994, [9] and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation: Transformative advances in fundamental physics International: Dirac Medal (ICTP)