Ashoke Sen, Professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad and member of the International Advisory Council of ICTS-TIFR, is among the recepients of the inaugural award of the recently established Fundamental Physics Prize. Professor Sen has been cited for "uncovering striking evidence of strong-weak duality in certain supersymmetric string theories and gauge theories, opening the path to the realisation that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory".
The Milner Foundation announced the launch of the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation with the aim of providing the recipients with more freedom and opportunity to pursue even greater future accomplishments. The Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the field, while the New Horizons in Physics Prizes are targeted at promising junior researchers.
In its inaugural year, the Milner Foundation has awarded nine Fundamental Physics Prizes, each worth three million U.S. dollars. The eight other recipients along with Ashoke Sen are Alan Guth, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Alexei Kitaev, Maxim Kontsevich, Andrei Linde, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten.