Past Laureates of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics

2010

Research field: Nano-Photonics and Nano-Plasmonics

Prof. Mark L. Brongersma

For outstanding experimental and theoretical research in nano-plasmonics and nano-photonics; in particular on the emission of light from nano-structures that support propagating surface plasmons.

For outstanding theoretical and experimental research in nano-plasmonics and nano-photonics; in particular on the propagation of surface plasmons-polaritons along a chain of metallic nano-particles.

2008

Research field: Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the LHC Era

For his novel, deep and highly influential contributions to new paradigms for physics beyond the Standard Model at the TeV energy scale, especially the ideas of large extra dimensions and of the large hierarchy of strengths of fundamental forces in Nature, including gravity; supersymmetry model-building; theories of flavor and of neutrino masses; and models of the cosmological constant.

2006

Research field: Theoretical or Experimental Nuclear/Hadron Physics

Professor Thomas Glasmacher, Michigan State University

Professor Yuri V. Kovchegov, Ohio State University

2004

Research field: Observational or Theoretical Astronomy and Astrophysics

Professor Andrea M. Ghez, University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Adam G. Riess, The Johns Hopkins University

2002

Research field: Physics of Engineered Materials

Professor Dr. Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Professor Dr. Ullrich Steiner, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

2000

Research field: Theoretical High Energy Physics

Professor Michael R. Douglas, Rutgers State University

Professor Juan Martin Maldacena, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton