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The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board.Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, [1] it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist Yuri Milner.
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.
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation: Transformative advances in fundamental physics International: Dirac Medal (ICTP)
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.
Alexander Polyakov was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1986, the Lorentz Medal in 1994, the Oskar Klein Medal in 1996, the Harvey Prize in 2010, the Lars Onsager Prize (together with A. Belavin and A. Zamolodchikov) in 2011 and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2013.
All three experiments (Super-Kamiokande, K2K and T2K) were awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016. [7] Presently, Jung is the spokesperson for the T2K US Collaboration and the founder and chair of the Steering Committee for the Next generation Nucleon decay and Neutrino detectors (NNN) Workshop Series. [2]
The pair have already won the 2023 Lasker and the Breakthrough prizes. ... “The Nobel Foundation’s selections of laureates in physics and in chemistry this year can only be described as bold ...
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]