Fundamental Physics Prize

The Fundamental Physics Prize is a prize of The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was founded by the Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner.

The price is the financially most valuable prize in the Sciences since July 2012. The prize money is 3 million U.S. dollars ( for each prize winner ) three times higher than for the Nobel Prize. In the first year, nine awards were presented, with the winners of the first annual sitting of the selection committee for future winners.

In addition to the main prize, the Foundation awards ( to the winners sit in the selection committee of the fundamental Prize ), endowed with $ 300,000 Physics Frontiers Prize and the $ 100,000 doped New Horizons in Physics Prize.

The prize is awarded by the Fundamental Physics Foundation, a non - profit organization. In their advice is next to Milner and Steven Weinberg.

List of winners

• 2012: Nima Arkani - Hamed, Alan Guth, Alexei Kitaev, Maxim Kontsevich, Andrei Linde, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg, Ashoke Sen, Edward Witten
• 2013: Alexander Polyakov
• 2014: Michael B. Green, John H. Schwarz

Winner of the Special Prize Fundamental Physics

The prize is awarded at irregular intervals.

• 2013 Stephen Hawking for contributions to quantum gravity and cosmology, and seven experimental particle physicists for contributions to the discovery of the Higgs particle at the LHC: Peter Jenni and Fabiola Gianotti of ATLAS Collaboration, Michel Della Negra, Tejinder Singh Virdee, Guido Tonelli, Joe Incandela of the CMS Collaboration and Lyn Evans