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

2018

The Selection Committee of the 2018 Sackler Prize in the physical sciences has decided to award the 2018 Sackler Prize in the field of "Quantum Field Theory (QFT) - Novel Developments and Applications" to Professor Zohar Komargodski from the Weizmann Institute, Israel and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, US, and to Professor Pedro Vieira from the Perimeter Institute, Canada and the ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil, for their outstanding work probing QFT in non-perturbative regimes.

Professor Komargodski is awarded the prize for his broad and deep insights which have shed remarkable light on many aspects of QFT, including renormalization group flows, dualities and phase structure, conformal field theories, and effective field theories for broken supersymmetry and long strings.

Professor Vieira is awarded the prize for his innovative work bringing the power of integrability to bear on a variety of observables in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills quantum field theory, including operator anomalous dimensions and correlation functions, Wilson loops and scattering amplitudes, as well as for developing a new S-matrix approach to constraining amplitudes in massive quantum field theories.
The coordinators of the 2018 Sackler Prize are: Professor Shimon Yankielowicz and Professor Marek Karliner, School of Physics, Tel Aviv University

2014

The 2014 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics is awarded for Topological Phases in Condensed Matter.

Tel Aviv University is proud to announce that the 2014 prize laureates are:

Prof. B. Andrei Bernevig

Eugene and Mary Wigner Assistant Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, Princeton University
322 Jadwin Hall,
Princeton, NJ 08648, USA

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For his theoretical contribution towards a first realization of a two dimensional topological insulator.

Prof. Liang Fu

Assistant Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 6C-305
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA

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For his contribution to generalization of the concept of topological insulators from two to three dimensions.

Prof. Xiao-Liang Qi

Assistant Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, Stanford University
312 McCullough Bldg., 476 Lomita Mall,
Stanford, CA 94305-4045, USA

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For his contribution to the prediction of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators.

The prize money of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics of $100,000 will be shared equally among the three distinguished recipients, and will be awarded to the recipients in person on April 9, 2014.

2012

The 2012 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics was awarded for observational or theoretical achievements in the study of extra-solar planets.

Tel Aviv University is proud to announce that the 2012 prize laureates are:

Prof. David Charbonneau

Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
Department of Astronomy
60 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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For his breakthrough discoveries, including the first detections of transiting extra-solar planets and spectroscopic observations of their atmospheres.

Prof. Sara Seager

Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science and Physics
Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 54-1718
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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For her brilliant theoretical studies, including analysis of the atmospheres and internal compositions of extra-solar planets.

2010

Research field: Nano-Photonics and Nano-Plasmonics

Prof. Mark L. Brongersma

Materials Science and Engineering Department, Geballe Laboratory of Advanced Materials

Stanford University, McCullough Bldg, Rm 349, 476 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-4045

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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.

Prof. Stefan A. Maier
Co-Director, Centre for Plasmonics & Metamaterials, Experimental Solid State Group, Physics Department
Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, England

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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

Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed,
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

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.