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Crafoord Prize awarded to Kontsevich and Witten

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By overconvergent
from the important prizes department
Posted Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 01:06:20 PM PDT

The Mathematics half of the 2008 Crafoord Prize has been awarded to Maxim Kontsevich and Edward Witten, for their work on "mathematical discoveries that are significant for the fundamental laws of nature"; in particular, on string theory.

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The Crafoord Prize is a prestigious science prize which is awarded annually; the disciplines for which it is awarded rotate on a three-year cycle, so Mathematics comes up once every three years (together with Astronomy). It is perhaps most famous for being the prize that Alexander Grothendieck declined in 1986.

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