The news today in physics, reported by the New York Times and Peter Woit, is that Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire physics enthusiast, has announced a new set of prizes for fundamental physics. I wrote a little about the previous award of prizes here. These prizes are somewhat less generous than those announced over the summer (which were worth $3 million each); this time only Stephen Hawking receives that amount, and the others get a smaller share. Woit typically notes that almost all the non-experimental recipients have some connection to string theory.
But the other interesting thing about the new prizes is that in this round, some experimentalists have actually been included.
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But the other interesting thing about the new prizes is that in this round, some experimentalists have actually been included.
Read the rest at Blank On The Map
