Fundamental Physics Prize

Check winners and nominations of 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize. Check awards winners of 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Physics Frontiers Prize Charles L. Kane, Laurens W. Molenkamp, Shoucheng Zhang (For the theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of topological insulators.)
Physics Frontiers Prize 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.)
Physics Frontiers Prize 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.)
New Horizons in Physics Prize Niklas Beisert (For the development of powerful exact methods to describe a quantum gauge theory and its associated string theory.)
New Horizons in Physics Prize Davide Gaiotto (For far-reaching new insights about duality, gauge theory, and geometry, and especially for his work linking theories in different dimensions in most unexpected ways.)
New Horizons in Physics Prize Zohar Komargodski (For his work on the dynamics of four-dimensional field theories. In particular, his proof (with Schwimmer) of the \u201Ca-theorem\u201D has solved a long-standing problem, leading to deep new insights.)
Fundamental Physics Prize 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.)