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How did you learn that you received the award? I had just come back from Europe, from Holland. And I was sitting at my kitchen table paying bills. On my computer screen appeared a message from Edward Witten...

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Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for “Invention of Supergravity”

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, distinguished professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University, is one of three...

August 6, 2019

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