After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

More than 13,500 scientists who have worked on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), based in Geneva, Switzerland, have been awarded the ...

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Congratulations to our author, Gerard 't Hooft, one of the world’s most pre-eminent theoretical physicists, on being awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! He is known for ...

The Breakthrough Prize aims to honour and celebrate scientists, and inspire the next generation of scientists in society.

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“Gerard ‘t Hooft is one of the world’s most pre-eminent theoretical physicists”, says the press release issued by the organisation behind the awards. “In the early 1970s he made crucial contributions ...