No pun intended

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Attraverso la Fondazione per la fisica fondamentale, consulente Steven Weinberg, il miliardario Yuri Milner ha fatto una sorpresa da 3 milioni di dollari cad. agli stringhisti:
– Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
– Juan Maldacena, idem
– Nathan Seiberg, idem
– Edward Witten, idem
– Ashoke Sen, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad

e ai non stringhisti:
– Alan Guth, MIT (brane però)
– Alexei Kitaev, Caltech
– Maxim Kontsevich, Institut Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette
– Andrei Linde, Stanford
ora membri del “comitato di selezione” della Fondazione.
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La scienza e la Borsa

“The intention was to say that science is as important as shares trading on Wall Street,” Milner told Nature. The money comes with no strings attached, but he hopes that the prize will raise public recognition of theoretical physics and that the award recipients will deliver public lectures that will become as popular as Richard Feynman’s famous lectures on physics.

Invece di suonare il bongo, canteranno la Maldacena? Entre temps, ça fait du bruit dans Landerneau. (1)

(1) en français per i non francofoni…