Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is an award given each year since 1959 jointly by the
American Physical Society
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and
American Institute of Physics
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. 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.
Past Recipients
Source:
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of ...
*2025
Samson Shatashvili
*2024
David C. Brydges
*2023
Nikita Nekrasov
*2022
Antti Kupiainen and
Krzysztof Gawędzki
*2021
Joel Lebowitz
Joel Louis Lebowitz (born May 10, 1930) is a mathematical physicist known for his contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics, and many other fields of mathematics and physics. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Statis ...
*2020
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
*2019
T. Bill Sutherland,
Francesco Calogero and
Michel Gaudin
*2018
Barry Simon
*2017
Carl M. Bender
*2016
Andrew Strominger
Andrew Eben Strominger (; born 1955) is an American theoretical physicist who is the director of Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature. He has made significant contributions to quantum gravity and string theory. These include his ...
and
Cumrun Vafa
*2015
Pierre Ramond
*2014
Gregory W. Moore
*2013
Michio Jimbo and
Tetsuji Miwa
*2012
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
*2011
Herbert Spohn
*2010
Michael Aizenman
*2009
Carlo Becchi,
Alain Rouet,
Raymond Stora and
Igor Tyutin
*2008
Mitchell Feigenbaum
*2007
Juan Maldacena and
Joseph Polchinski
*2006
Sergio Ferrara,
Daniel Z. Freedman and
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
*2005
Giorgio Parisi
*2004
Gabriele Veneziano
*2003
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and
James W. York
*2002
Michael B. Green and
John Henry Schwarz
*2001
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
*2000
Sidney R. Coleman
*1999
Barry M. McCoy,
Tai Tsun Wu and
Alexander B. Zamolodchikov
*1998
Nathan Seiberg and
Edward Witten
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physics, theoretical physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory, and various areas of mathematics. He is a professor emeritus in the sc ...
*1997
Harry W. Lehmann
*1996
Roy J. Glauber
*1995
Roman W. Jackiw
*1994
Richard Arnowitt,
Stanley Deser and
Charles W. Misner
*1993
Martin C. Gutzwiller
*1992
Stanley Mandelstam
*1991
Thomas C.Spencer and
Jürg Fröhlich
Jürg Martin Fröhlich (born 4 July 1946 in Schaffhausen) is a Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist. He is best known for introducing rigorous techniques for the analysis of statistical mechanics models, in particular continuous symmetr ...
*1990
Yakov Sinai
*1989
John S. Bell
*1988
Julius Wess and
Bruno Zumino
*1987
Rodney Baxter
*1986
Alexander M. Polyakov
*1985
David P. Ruelle
*1984
Robert B. Griffiths
*1983
Martin D. Kruskal
*1982
John Clive Ward
*1981
Jeffrey Goldstone
*1980
James Glimm and
Arthur Jaffe
*1979
Gerard 't Hooft
*1978
Elliott Lieb
*1977
Steven Weinberg
*1976
Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking (8January 194214March 2018) was an English theoretical physics, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between ...
*1975
Ludwig D. Faddeev
*1974
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
*1973
Kenneth G. Wilson
*1972
James D. Bjorken
*1971
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, Philosophy of science, philosopher of science and Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics i ...
*1970
Yoichiro Nambu
*1969
Arthur S. Wightman
*1968
Sergio Fubini
Sergio Fubini (31 December 1928 – 6 January 2005) was an Italian theoretical physicist. He was one of the pioneers of string theory. He was engaged in peace activism in the Middle East.
Biography
Fubini was born in Turin. In 1938, he fled t ...
*1967
Gian Carlo Wick
*1966
Nikolai N. Bogoliubov
*1965
Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physics, theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrix, random matrices, math ...
*1964
Tullio Regge
*1963
Keith A. Brueckner
*1962
Léon Van Hove
*1961
Marvin Leonard Goldberger
*1960
Aage Bohr
*1959
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as the funda ...
See also
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Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
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List of mathematics awards
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List of physics awards
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See also
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* List of awards named after governo ...
References
External links
Official page at American Physical Society
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Mathematics awards
Awards established in 1959
Mathematical physics