Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
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Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is an award given each year since 1959 jointly by the American Physical Society
and American Institute of Physics
. It is established by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman
. As of 2010, the prize consists of US$ 10,000 and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient plus travel expenses to attend the meeting at which the prize is bestowed.
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...
and American Institute of Physics
American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics promotes science, the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies...
. It is established by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman
Dannie Heineman
Dannie N. Heineman was a Belgian-American engineer and businessman. He was the managing director and controling shareholder of the Belgian industrial multinational Sofina. He was a prolific sponsor of science especially through Heineman Foundation in medical sciences and awards in mathematical...
. As of 2010, the prize consists of US$ 10,000 and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient plus travel expenses to attend the meeting at which the prize is bestowed.
Past Recipients
- 2012 Giovanni Jona-LasinioGiovanni Jona-LasinioGiovanni Jona-Lasinio , sometimes called Gianni Jona, is an influential Italian theoretical physicist, best known for his works on quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. He pioneered research concerning spontaneous symmetry breaking, and the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model is named after him...
- 2011 Herbert SpohnHerbert SpohnHerbert Spohn is a German Mathematcian working in kinetic equations; dynamics of stochastic particle systems, hydrodynamic limit; kinetic of growths processes; disordered systems; open quantum systems...
- 2010 Michael AizenmanMichael AizenmanMichael Aizenman is a mathematician and a physicist at Princeton University working in the fields of mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, functional analysis and probability theory....
- 2009 Carlo BecchiCarlo BecchiCarlo Maria Becchi is an Italian theoretical physicist.Becchi studied at the University of Genoa, where he received his university degree in physics in 1962. He is since 1976 full professor for theoretical physics at the University of Genoa. Twice he was chairman of the physics faculty there...
, Alain Rouet, Raymond Stora and Igor TyutinIgor TyutinIgor Viktorovich Tyutin is a Russian theoretical physicist, who works on quantum field theory.Tyutin is a professor at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow... - 2008 Mitchell FeigenbaumMitchell FeigenbaumMitchell Jay Feigenbaum is a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.- Biography :...
- 2007 Juan Maldacena and Joseph PolchinskiJoseph PolchinskiJoseph Polchinski is a physicist working on string theory. He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971, obtained his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 under the supervision of Stanley Mandelstam...
- 2006 Sergio FerraraSergio FerraraSergio Ferrara is an Italian physicist working on theoretical physics of elementary particles and mathematical physics. He is renowned for the discovery of theories introducing supersymmetry as a symmetry of elementary particles Sergio Ferrara (born 1945) is an Italian physicist working on...
, Daniel Z. FreedmanDaniel Z. FreedmanDaniel Z. Freedman is an American theoretical physicist. He is a Professor of Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He is known for his work in supergravity.-Education:...
and Peter van NieuwenhuizenPeter van NieuwenhuizenPeter van Nieuwenhuizen is a Dutch physicist. He is now a distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University in the United States. Van Nieuwenhuizen is best-known for his discovery of supergravity with Sergio Ferrara and Daniel Z... - 2005 Giorgio ParisiGiorgio ParisiGiorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist. He is best known for his works concerning statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and various aspects of physics, mathematics and science in general....
- 2004 Gabriele VenezianoGabriele VenezianoGabriele Veneziano, born in Florence, Italy), is an Italian theoretical physicist and the founder of string theory. . Has spent most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland...
- 2003 Yvonne Choquet-BruhatYvonne Choquet-BruhatYvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist. She was the first woman to be elected to the Académie des Sciences Française and is a Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur....
and James W. YorkJames W. YorkJames W. York, Jr. is an American mathematical physicist who is well known for his many important contributions to the theory of general relativity... - 2002 Michael B. Green and John Henry Schwarz
- 2001 Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
- 2000 Sidney R. Coleman
- 1999 Barry M. McCoyBarry M. McCoyBarry M. McCoy is an American physicist, known for his contributions to classical statistical mechanics, integrable models and conformal field theories.He earned a B.Sc. from California Institute of Technology ,and a Ph.D...
, Tai Tsun WuTai Tsun WuTai Tsun Wu is an Chinese American physicist and applied physicist well known for his contributions to high-energy nuclear physics and statistical mechanics....
and Alexander B. Zamolodchikov - 1998 Nathan SeibergNathan SeibergNathan "Nati" Seiberg is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He was recipient of a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1998. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, USA...
and Edward WittenEdward WittenEdward Witten is an American theoretical physicist with a focus on mathematical physics who is currently a professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study.... - 1997 Harry W. Lehmann
- 1996 Roy J. GlauberRoy J. GlauberRoy Jay Glauber is an American theoretical physicist. He is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona...
- 1995 Roman W. Jackiw
- 1994 Richard ArnowittRichard ArnowittRichard Lewis Arnowitt is an American physicist known for his contributions to theoretical particle physics and to general relativity.Arnowitt is a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, where he is a member of the Department of Physics....
, Stanley DeserStanley DeserStanley Deser is an American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity. Currently, he is the Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts....
and Charles W. MisnerCharles W. MisnerCharles W. Misner is an American physicist and one of the authors of Gravitation. His specialties include general relativity and cosmology. His work has also provided early foundations for studies of quantum gravity and numerical relativity.... - 1993 Martin C. Gutzwiller
- 1992 Stanley MandelstamStanley MandelstamStanley Mandelstam is a South African-born theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations...
- 1991 Thomas C. Spencer and Jürg FröhlichJürg FröhlichJürg Martin Fröhlich is a Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist.In 1965 Fröhlich began to study mathematics and physics at Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich...
- 1990 Yakov Sinai
- 1989 John S. Bell
- 1988 Julius WessJulius WessJulius Wess was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–Zumino–Witten model in the field of supersymmetry...
and Bruno ZuminoBruno ZuminoBruno Zumino is an Italian theoretical physicist and emeritus faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He got his bachelor degree from the University of Rome in 1945... - 1987 Rodney Baxter
- 1986 Alexander M. Polyakov
- 1985 David P. Ruelle
- 1984 Robert B. Griffiths
- 1983 Martin D. Kruskal
- 1982 John Clive WardJohn Clive WardJohn Clive Ward , was a British-Australian physicist. His most famous creation was the Ward-Takahashi identity, originally known as "Ward Identity" . This celebrated result, in quantum electrodynamics, was inspired by a conjecture of Dyson and was disclosed in a one-half page letter typical of...
- 1981 Jeffrey GoldstoneJeffrey GoldstoneJeffrey Goldstone is a British-born theoretical physicist and an emeritus physics faculty at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977....
- 1980 James GlimmJames GlimmJames Gilbert Glimm is an American mathematical physicist, and Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.James Glimm was born in Peoria, Illinois, USA on 24 March 1934.- Career :...
and Arthur JaffeArthur JaffeArthur Jaffe is an American mathematical physicist and a professor at Harvard University. Born on December 22, 1937 he attended Princeton University as an undergraduate obtaining a degree in chemistry, and later Clare College, Cambridge, as a Marshall Scholar, obtaining a degree in mathematics... - 1979 Gerard 't Hooft
- 1978 Elliott LiebElliott H. LiebElliott H. Lieb is an eminent American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University who specializes in statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, and functional analysis....
- 1977 Steven WeinbergSteven WeinbergSteven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....
- 1976 Stephen HawkingStephen HawkingStephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity...
- 1975 Ludwig D. Faddeev
- 1974 Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharSubrahmanyan ChandrasekharSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS ) was an Indian origin American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars...
- 1973 Kenneth G. WilsonKenneth G. WilsonKenneth Geddes Wilson is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann....
- 1972 James D. Bjorken
- 1971 Roger PenroseRoger PenroseSir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College...
- 1970 Yoichiro NambuYoichiro Nambuis a Japanese-born American physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded a one-half share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in...
- 1969 Arthur S. Wightman
- 1968 Sergio FubiniSergio FubiniSergio Fubini was an Italian theoretical physicist. He was one of the pioneers of string theory. Politically he engaged himself actively for peace in the Middle East.- Biography :...
- 1967 Gian Carlo Wick
- 1966 Nikolai N. Bogoliubov
- 1965 Freeman J. Dyson
- 1964 Tullio ReggeTullio ReggeTullio Regge is an Italian theoretical physicist. He obtained a degree in physics from the University of Turin in 1952, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Rochester in 1957 under the direction of Robert Marshak. From 1958 to 1959 Regge held a post at the Max Planck Institute for...
- 1963 Keith A. BruecknerKeith BruecknerKeith Allen Brueckner is a theoretical physicist who has given important contributions in several areas of physics, including many-body theory in condensed matter physics, and laser fusion. He was born in Minneapolis on March 19, 1924. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in mathematics from the University...
- 1962 Léon Van HoveLéon Van HoveLéon Van Hove was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology.-Biography:...
- 1961 Marvin Leonard GoldbergerMarvin Leonard GoldbergerMarvin Leonard Goldberger is a theoretical physicist and former president of the California Institute of Technology.-Biography:...
- 1960 Aage Bohr
- 1959 Murray Gell-MannMurray Gell-MannMurray Gell-Mann is an American physicist and linguist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles...
See also
- Dannie Heineman Prize for AstrophysicsDannie Heineman Prize for AstrophysicsThe Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics is jointly awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics for outstanding work in astrophysics. It is funded by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman....
- List of prizes, medals, and awards
- Prizes named after peoplePrizes named after peopleThis is a list of prizes that are named after people.For other lists of eponyms see Lists of etymologies.* Ansari X Prize - Anousheh Ansari, Amir Ansari* Prince of Asturias Awards - Felipe, Prince of Asturias-A:...