Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize

Sebastiaan Haffert won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For demonstrating new extreme adaptive optics techniques that will allow the direct detection of the smallest exoplanets.

Rebecca Jensen-Clem won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For demonstrating new extreme adaptive optics techniques that will allow the direct detection of the smallest exoplanets.

Maaike van Kooten won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For demonstrating new extreme adaptive optics techniques that will allow the direct detection of the smallest exoplanets.

Waseem Bakr won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the realization of quantum gas microscopes for atoms and molecules, providing a microscopic view on correlations and transport in strongly interacting quantum systems.

Jeongwan Haah won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the discovery of Haah's code, in which fractal conservation laws emerge, and other models bringing discrete mathematical structures to physics.

Til Birnstiel won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the prediction, discovery, and modeling of dust traps in young circumstellar disks, solving a long-standing problem in planet formation.

Laura M. Pérez won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the prediction, discovery, and modeling of dust traps in young circumstellar disks, solving a long-standing problem in planet formation.

Paola Pinilla won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the prediction, discovery, and modeling of dust traps in young circumstellar disks, solving a long-standing problem in planet formation.

Nienke van der Marel won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the prediction, discovery, and modeling of dust traps in young circumstellar disks, solving a long-standing problem in planet formation.

Mikhail Ivanov won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For contributions to our understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe and the development of new tools to extract fundamental physics from galaxy surveys.

Oliver Philcox won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For contributions to our understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe and the development of new tools to extract fundamental physics from galaxy surveys.

Marko Simonović won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For contributions to our understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe and the development of new tools to extract fundamental physics from galaxy surveys.

Michael Johnson won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For elucidating the sub-structure and universal characteristics of black hole photon rings, and their proposed detection by next-generation interferometric experiments.

Alexandru Lupsasca won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For elucidating the sub-structure and universal characteristics of black hole photon rings, and their proposed detection by next-generation interferometric experiments.

Anna Grassellino won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the discovery of major performance enhancements to niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavities, with applications ranging from accelerator physics to quantum devices.

David Simmons-Duffin won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of analytical and numerical techniques to study conformal field theories, including the ones describing the liquid vapor critical point and the superfluid phase transition.

Hannes Bernien won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.

Manuel Endres won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.

Adam M. Kaufman won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.

Kang-Kuen Ni won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.

Hannes Pichler won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.

Jeff Thompson won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.

Suchitra Sebastian won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For high precision electronic and magnetic measurements that have profoundly changed our understanding of high temperature superconductors and unconventional insulators.

Alessandra Corsi won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars.

Gregg Hallinan won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars.

Mansi Manoj Kasliwal won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars.

Raffaella Margutti won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars.

Dominic Else won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering theoretical work formulating novel phases of non-equilibrium quantum matter, including time crystals.

Vedika Khemani won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering theoretical work formulating novel phases of non-equilibrium quantum matter, including time crystals.

Haruki Watanabe won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering theoretical work formulating novel phases of non-equilibrium quantum matter, including time crystals.

Norman Y. Yao won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering theoretical work formulating novel phases of non-equilibrium quantum matter, including time crystals.

Tracy Slatyer won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For major contributions to particle astrophysics, from models of dark matter to the discovery of the “Fermi Bubbles.”

Rouven Essig won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For advances in the detection of sub-GeV dark matter especially in regards to the SENSEI experiment.

Javier Tiffenberg won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For advances in the detection of sub-GeV dark matter especially in regards to the SENSEI experiment.

Tomer Volansky won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For advances in the detection of sub-GeV dark matter especially in regards to the SENSEI experiment.

Tien-Tien Yu won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For advances in the detection of sub-GeV dark matter especially in regards to the SENSEI experiment.

Ahmed Almheiri won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For calculating the quantum information content of a black hole and its radiation.

Netta Engelhardt won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For calculating the quantum information content of a black hole and its radiation.

Henry Maxfield won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For calculating the quantum information content of a black hole and its radiation.

Geoff Penington won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For calculating the quantum information content of a black hole and its radiation.

Jo Dunkley won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of novel techniques to extract fundamental physics from astronomical data.

Kendrick Smith won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of novel techniques to extract fundamental physics from astronomical data.

Lukasz Fidkowski won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.

Max A. Metlitski won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.

Michael Levin won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.

Pedro Vieira won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For profound contributions to the understanding of quantum field theory.

Samaya Nissanke won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of novel techniques to extract fundamental physics from astronomical data.

Simon Caron-Huot won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For profound contributions to the understanding of quantum field theory.

Xie Chen won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.

Rana Adhikari won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For research on present and future ground-based detectors of gravitational waves.

Lisa Barsotti won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For research on present and future ground-based detectors of gravitational waves.

Matthew Evans won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For research on present and future ground-based detectors of gravitational waves.

Daniel Harlow won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity.

Daniel L. Jafferis won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity

Aron Wall won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity.

Brian Metzger won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering predictions of the electromagnetic signal from a neutron star merger, and for leadership in the emerging field of multi-messenger astronomy.

Douglas Stanford won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For profound new insights on quantum chaos and its relation to gravity.

Andrea Young won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the co-invention of van der Waals heterostructures, and for the new quantum Hall phases that he discovered with them.

Christopher Hirata won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of early galaxy formation and to sharpening and applying the most powerful tools of precision cosmology.'

Frans Pretorius won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For creating the first computer code capable of simulating the inspiral and merger of binary black holes, thereby laying crucial foundations for interpreting the recent observations of gravitational waves; and for opening new directions in numerical relativity.

Xi Yin won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For imaginative joint work on higher spin gravity and its holographic connection to a new soluble field theory.

Simone Giombi won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For imaginative joint work on higher spin gravity and its holographic connection to a new soluble field theory.

Surjeet Rajendran won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering a wide range of new experimental probes of fundamental physics.

Peter W. Graham won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering a wide range of new experimental probes of fundamental physics.

Asimina Arvanitaki won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering a wide range of new experimental probes of fundamental physics.

B. Andrei Bernevig won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics, especially involving the use of topology to understand new states of matter.

Leonardo Senatore won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For outstanding contributions to theoretical cosmology.

Liang Fu won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics, especially involving the use of topology to understand new states of matter.

Raphael Flauger won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For outstanding contributions to theoretical cosmology.

Xiao-Liang Qi won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics, especially involving the use of topology to understand new states of matter.

Yuji Tachikawa won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For penetrating and incisive studies of supersymmetric quantum field theories.

Tadashi Takayanagi won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For fundamental ideas about entropy in quantum field theory and quantum gravity.

Shinsei Ryu won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For fundamental ideas about entropy in quantum field theory and quantum gravity.

Marina Huerta won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For fundamental ideas about entropy in quantum field theory and quantum gravity.

Horacio Casini won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For fundamental ideas about entropy in quantum field theory and quantum gravity.

Natalia Toro won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering the “simplified models” framework for new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider, as well as spearheading new experimental searches for dark sectors using high-intensity electron beams.

Philip C. Schuster won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For pioneering the "simplified models" framework for new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider, as well as spearheading new experimental searches for dark sectors using high-intensity electron beams.

Sean Hartnoll won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For applying holographic methods to obtain remarkable new insights into strongly interacting quantum matter.

Shiraz Naval Minwalla is a leading string theorist in TIFR's Department of Theoretical Physics, Mumbai, previously a Harvard Junior Fellow and assistant professor. His work spans AdS/CFT correspondence, noncommutative field theories, fluid-gravity correspondence, and quantum field theory. He won the SSB Prize (Physical Sciences, 2011), the Infosys Prize, the New Horizons in Physics Prize, and the TWAS Prize in Physics.

Vyacheslav Rychkov won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For developing new techniques in conformal field theory, reviving the conformal bootstrap program for constraining the spectrum of operators and the structure constants in 3D and 4D CFT’s.

Freddy Cachazo won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For uncovering numerous structures underlying scattering amplitudes in gauge theories and gravity.

Zohar Komargodski won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For his work on the dynamics of four-dimensional field theories. In particular, his proof (with Schwimmer) of the “a-theorem” has solved a long-standing problem, leading to deep new insights.

Davide Gaiotto won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For far-reaching new insights about duality, gauge theory, and geometry, and especially for his work linking theories in different dimensions in most unexpected ways.

Niklas Beisert won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize For the development of powerful exact methods to describe a quantum gauge theory and its associated string theory.