First awarded in 1901, the Nobel Prize medals depict Alfred Nobel (1833-1896). © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud

Nobel Laureates arrived in ICISE

Born: 5 December 1932, New York, NY, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Lyman Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA

Prize motivation: “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current.”

Born: 28 June 1943, Schroda, German-occupied Poland (now Poland)

Affiliation at the time of the award: Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany

Prize motivation: “for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect.”

Born: 25 May 1921, Bad Kissingen, Germany

Affiliation at the time of the award: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Prize motivation: “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.”

Born: 28 March 1930, Chicago, IL, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

Prize motivation: “for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.”

Born: 5 July 1946, Den Helder, the Netherlands

Affiliation at the time of the award: Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Prize motivation: “for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.”

Born: 4 October 1938, Aarberg, Switzerland

Affiliation at the time of the award: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

Prize motivation: “for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution.”

Born: 19 February 1941, Washington, DC, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Prize motivation: “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.”

Born: 1 December 1943, Gjesdal, Norway

Affiliation at the time of the award: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Prize motivation: “for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles.”

Contribution: Showed that economic policies are often plagued by problems of time inconsistency. Demonstrated that society could gain from prior commitment to economic policy. Introduced new ideas about economic policy design and the driving forces behind business cycles.

Born: 20 February 1945, Yukon, FL, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.”

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2007

Founded: 1988 in New York, NY, USA

Residence at the time of the award: Geneva, Switzerland

Prize motivation: “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”

Born: 6 November 1932, Etterbeek, Belgium

Affiliation at the time of the award: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Prize motivation: “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.”

Born: 9 March 1959, Higashimatsuyama, Japan

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Prize motivation: “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.”

Born: 27 January 1936, Omaha, NE, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA

Prize motivation: “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.”

Born: 12 January 1942, Lausanne, Switzerland

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Prize motivation: “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”

The Fields Medal is awarded every four years on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.

The Fields Medalist arrived in ICISE in 2015, 2016 & 2019

Born: June 28, 1972, Hanoi, North Vietnam

Vietnamese-French mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010 for his work in algebraic geometry, specifically “his proof of the Fundamental Lemma in the theory of automorphic forms.”

Born: 5 October, 1973, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France

He is a French politician and mathematician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010

ICTP’s Dirac Medal, first awarded in 1985, is given in honour of P.A.M. Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a staunch friend of the Centre. It is awarded annually on Dirac’s birthday, 8 August, to scientists who have made significant contributions to theoretical physics. Photo: https://www.ictp.it/

The Dirac Medalist arrived in ICISE in 2013 & 2018

Born: 1969, Hanoi, Vietnam

ICTP awarded its 2018 Dirac Medal and Prize to three distinguished physicists – Subir Sachdev of Harvard University, Dam Thanh Son of the University of Chicago, and Xiao-Gang Wen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – for their independent contributions toward understanding novel phases in strongly interacting many-body systems, introducing original cross-disciplinary techniques.