The 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize has been awarded to Alexander Polyakov for his many discoveries in field theory and string theory.

The 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize winner was selected from the list of 2013 Physics Frontiers Prize winners by the Selection Committee, which is solely comprised of prior recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize and includes Nima Arkani-Hamed, Alan Guth, Alexei Kitaev, Maxim Kontsevich, Andrei Linde, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg, Ashoke Sen and Edward Witten.

In addition to 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize, several other prizes were attributed: the Physics Frontiers Prize, New Horizons in Physics Prize and Two Special Fundamental Physics Prizes.

Laurens Molenkamp, EPS member and winner of the 2010 Europhysics Prize of the EPS Condensed Matter Division was awarded with the 2013 Physics Frontiers Prize together with Charles Kane and Shoucheng Zhang, for the theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of topological insulators.

For more info about the Fundamental Physics Prize and to view the complete list of laureates, click here.

Dr. Laurens Molenkamp
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