Yuri Milner adds some winners

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According to The New York Times and others, Yuri Milner has found a few more physicists to get millions of dollars.



A visualization of the big money – although Milner is so far giving away less than the U.S. debt. ;-)

When the inaugural prize was given away, I said that Stephen Hawking was somewhat anomalously missing in the list. The omission has been fixed; he will spend it on holiday at home and his autistic grandson. Another $3 million package is to be shared by seven physicists at CERN: Evans $1m, $1m split to CMS spokespersons Della, Virdee, Tonelli, Incandela; $1 split to ATLAS spokespeople Jenni, Gianotti.

Competitors for the next big prize are Polchinski, Polyakov, and a group of solid state physicists led by Charles Kane.




It's also interesting to look at the the winners of the $0.3 million New Horizons award: Niklas Beisert, Davide Gaiotto, and Zohar Komargodski. Very sensible picks! I am sure that many younger-generation physicists as well as the senior ones would agree with me. Incidentally, each of them gives you several hits on this blog. Too bad that these folks and a few other folks are almost completely unknown outside the very narrow HEP-TH research community.