Fundamental Physics Prize - $27 million awarded

Devils

Who said is there any money in Physics?

http://fundamentalphysicsprize.org/news.html
New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the field
Inaugural nine recipients of the Prize receive US$27 million in aggregate, all of whom agree to form a Selection Committee to award future prizes

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In its inaugural year, the Milner Foundation has awarded nine Fundamental Physics Prizes and the recipients are:

Nima Arkani-Hamed
Alan Guth
Alexei Kitaev
Maxim Kontsevich
Andrei Linde
Juan Maldacena
Nathan Seiberg
Ashoke Sen
Edward Witten

Drakkith

Interesting.

Physics Monkey

Haha, one condensed matter-esque guy! At least they didn't totally ignore those of us doing "applied physics"!

Drakkith

But they did ignore those of us doing "applied wikipedia".

meldraft

Bummer

Blackforest

The "new horizons" prize is still a great perspective for some of us... not for amateurs, I guess, but anyway a good initiative. Interesting.

MTd2

It seems that how this money is being handled in a way which is likely to not give meaningful productive results. These guys are well funded already. For example Witten has got a few million of grants, but it didn't improve his productivity compared to when he didn't have that much. Outside this specific set of listed people, Erik Verlinde, for example, had its production almost down to 0 after he got 5 million in grants.

Maybe these prizes could have specific set of rules, like setting up small scale "Manhattan projects", to intensively study a project by arranging working group in a facility.

mitchell porter

Wow, I was just thinking about, let's see, how to apply Seiberg-Witten invariants to topological computation as performed by tachyon condensation in an inflationary universe that's an uplift of an AdS/CFT duality. Also I was going to use motivic integration. And twistors. What a coincidence. I guess I should apply!

arivero

I agree that you should try to publish

audioloop

Great !

audioloop

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good bye Nobel