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Internet billionaire throws lavish soiree for physicists
And the award for ‘best physicist’ goes to…Alexander Polyakov, of Princeton University, New Jersey. Polyakov was named the winner of 2013’s whopping US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, yesterday evening, for his early work on developing some of the mathematics behind the quantum-mechanical theory of fields that today underpins the Standard Model of particle physics.
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