Wigner Medal
The Wigner Medal, is an award designed "to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through Group Theory".[1] The Wigner Medal is administered by The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, a publicly supported organization. Donations are tax deductible as provided pursuant to the provisions of Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code, a federal code of the United States.
The award was first presented in 1978 to Eugene Wigner, and was first awarded at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics.[2]
List of Awardees
- 1978 Eugene Wigner
- 1978 Valentine Bargmann
- 1980 Israel Gel'fand
- 1982 Louis Michel
- 1984 Yuval Ne'eman
- 1986 Feza Gürsey
- 1988 Isadore Singer
- 1990 Francesco Iachello
- 1992 Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino
- 1994 not assigned
- 1996 Victor Kac and Robert Moody
- 1998 Marcos Moshinsky
- 2000 Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh
- 2002 Harry Jeannot Lipkin
- 2004 Erdal İnönü
- 2006 Susumu Okubo
- 2008 not assigned
- 2010 Michio Jimbo
- 2012 C. Alden Mead[3][4]
- 2014 Joshua Zak[5]
- 2016 Bertram Kostant
References
- ↑ "The Wigner Medal Bylaws" (PDF). The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
- ↑ "The Wigner Medal". The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
- ↑ "Professor Emeritus Alden Mead receives Wigner Medal". University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ↑ "The XXIX International Colloquium on Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics". Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ↑ "Wigner Medal awarded to Professor Joshua Zak". Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – Physics Department. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
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