| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2013 |
|
Charles L. Kane |
For the theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of topological insulators. |
|
Laurens W. Molenkamp |
For the theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of topological insulators. |
|
Shoucheng Zhang |
For the theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of topological insulators. |
| 2013 |
|
Alexander Markovich Polyakov |
For his many discoveries in field theory and string theory including the conformal bootstrap, magnetic monopoles, instantons, confinement/de-confinement, the quantization of strings in non-critical dimensions, gauge/string duality and many others. His ideas have dominated the scene in these fields during the past decades. |
| 2013 |
|
Joseph Polchinski |
For his contributions in many areas of quantum field theory and string theory. His discovery of D-branes has given new insights into the nature of string theory and quantum gravity, with consequences including the AdS/CFT correspondence. |
