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Dutch theoretical physicist (born 1938)
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (Dutch:
[ˈpeːtər vɑˈniu.ə(n)ˌɦœyzə(n)] ; born October 26, 1938) is a
Dutch
theoretical physicist . He is a distinguished Professor at
Stony Brook University in the
United States .
[1] Widely known for his contributions to
String theory ,
Supersymmetry ,
Supergravity and
Field theory .
[2]
[3]
[4]
He is best known for his discovery of
supergravity with
Sergio Ferrara and
Daniel Z. Freedman for which he along with his collaborators won the
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2019.
[5]
Life and career
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen studied physics and mathematics at the University of Utrecht, where he obtained in 1971 his Ph.D. under the supervision of later Nobel laureate
Martinus Veltman .
[6]
After his studies in Utrecht he went to
CERN (Geneva), the University of Paris in Orsay, and
Brandeis University (Waltham). In 1975 he joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics, now named
C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics , of the
Stony Brook University , where he succeeded Nobel laureate
C. N. Yang as its director from 1999 till 2002.
Awards and honors
For constructing
supergravity , the first
supersymmetric extension of Einstein's theory of
general relativity , and for their central role in its subsequent development
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen,
Sergio Ferrara and
Daniel Z. Freedman received in 1993 the
Dirac medal from the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (Italy), in 2006 the
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of the
American Physical Society and in 2016 the
Ettore Majorana Medal from EMFCSC, Erice. In 2019 the three were awarded a special
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics of $3 million
[7] for the discovery.
[8]
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a corresponding member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994,
[9] and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was made a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion in 2004, and Honorary professor of the
Technical University of Vienna (Austria) in 2005.
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Mathematics
Fundamental physics
Nima Arkani-Hamed ,
Alan Guth ,
Alexei Kitaev ,
Maxim Kontsevich ,
Andrei Linde ,
Juan Maldacena ,
Nathan Seiberg ,
Ashoke Sen ,
Edward Witten (2012)
Special :
Stephen Hawking ,
Peter Jenni ,
Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS),
Michel Della Negra ,
Tejinder Virdee ,
Guido Tonelli ,
Joseph Incandela (CMS) and
Lyn Evans (LHC) (2013)
Alexander Polyakov (2013)
Michael Green and
John Henry Schwarz (2014)
Saul Perlmutter and members of the
Supernova Cosmology Project ;
Brian Schmidt ,
Adam Riess and members of the
High-Z Supernova Team (2015)
Special :
Ronald Drever ,
Kip Thorne ,
Rainer Weiss and contributors to
LIGO project (2016)
Yifang Wang ,
Kam-Biu Luk and the
Daya Bay team ,
Atsuto Suzuki and the
KamLAND team,
Kōichirō Nishikawa and the
K2K /
T2K team,
Arthur B. McDonald and the
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory team,
Takaaki Kajita and
Yōichirō Suzuki and the
Super-Kamiokande team (2016)
Joseph Polchinski ,
Andrew Strominger ,
Cumrun Vafa (2017)
Charles L. Bennett ,
Gary Hinshaw ,
Norman Jarosik ,
Lyman Page Jr. ,
David Spergel (2018)
Special :
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (2018)
Charles Kane and
Eugene Mele (2019)
Special :
Sergio Ferrara ,
Daniel Z. Freedman ,
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (2019)
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2020)
Eric Adelberger ,
Jens H. Gundlach and
Blayne Heckel (2021)
Special :
Steven Weinberg (2021)
Hidetoshi Katori and
Jun Ye (2022)
Charles H. Bennett ,
Gilles Brassard ,
David Deutsch ,
Peter W. Shor (2023)
John Cardy and
Alexander Zamolodchikov (2024)
Life sciences
Cornelia Bargmann ,
David Botstein ,
Lewis C. Cantley ,
Hans Clevers ,
Titia de Lange ,
Napoleone Ferrara ,
Eric Lander ,
Charles Sawyers ,
Robert Weinberg ,
Shinya Yamanaka and
Bert Vogelstein (2013)
James P. Allison ,
Mahlon DeLong ,
Michael N. Hall ,
Robert S. Langer ,
Richard P. Lifton and
Alexander Varshavsky (2014)
Alim Louis Benabid ,
Charles David Allis ,
Victor Ambros ,
Gary Ruvkun ,
Jennifer Doudna and
Emmanuelle Charpentier (2015)
Edward Boyden ,
Karl Deisseroth ,
John Hardy ,
Helen Hobbs and
Svante Pääbo (2016)
Stephen J. Elledge ,
Harry F. Noller ,
Roeland Nusse ,
Yoshinori Ohsumi ,
Huda Zoghbi (2017)
Joanne Chory ,
Peter Walter ,
Kazutoshi Mori ,
Kim Nasmyth ,
Don W. Cleveland (2018)
C. Frank Bennett and
Adrian R. Krainer ,
Angelika Amon ,
Xiaowei Zhuang ,
Zhijian Chen (2019)
Jeffrey M. Friedman ,
Franz-Ulrich Hartl ,
Arthur L. Horwich ,
David Julius ,
Virginia Man-Yee Lee (2020)
David Baker ,
Catherine Dulac ,
Dennis Lo ,
Richard J. Youle [
de ] (2021)
Jeffery W. Kelly ,
Katalin Karikó ,
Drew Weissman ,
Shankar Balasubramanian ,
David Klenerman and
Pascal Mayer (2022)
Clifford P. Brangwynne ,
Anthony A. Hyman ,
Demis Hassabis ,
John Jumper ,
Emmanuel Mignot ,
Masashi Yanagisawa (2023)
Carl June ,
Michel Sadelain ,
Sabine Hadida ,
Paul Negulescu ,
Fredrick Van Goor ,
Thomas Gasser ,
Ellen Sidransky and
Andrew Singleton (2024)
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