Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has become only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal, the world’s oldest scientific prize.
Professor Michael Cates FRS, FRSE, a distinguished theoretical physicist who is a world leader in the study of soft matter, has been elected the 19th holder of the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, succeeding Professor Michael Green.
In August 1984 two physicists arrived at a formula that transformed our understanding of string theory, an achievement now recognised by a major award. Professor Michael Green of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics explains how string theory has taken unexpected directions.
Professor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, has been jointly awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Professor John H. Schwarz, California Institute of Technology, for opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces.
Professor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded one of the three 2014 Frontiers Prizes for Fundamental Physics to be shared with John Schwarz, the Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, USA.
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