Online Nominations for 2014 Fundamental Physics Prize

New York (ots/PRNewswire) -

Three winners of the Physics Frontiers Prize will be announced
this November and become nominees for the 2014 $3 million Fundamental
Physics Prize

The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation announces today the
opening of online nomination website for its 2014 prizes. The rules
and nomination form are available to the public at
http://www.fundamentalphysicsprize.org. Anyone can nominate a
candidate online and all submissions must be completed by a third
party.

Nominations will be accepted through October 15, 2013.

The Foundation's Selection Committee, which is composed of prior
recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize, will choose three
winners of the Physics Frontiers Prize from among the nominees, and
up to three winners of the New Horizons in Physics Prize. Those
winners will be announced in November 2013.

The following scientists comprise the Selection Committee for the
2014 prizes:

- Nima Arkani-Hamed
- Lyn Evans
- Fabiola Gianotti
- Alan Guth
- Stephen Hawking
- Joseph Incandela
- Alexei Kitaev
- Maxim Kontsevich
- Andrei Linde
- Juan Maldacena
- Alexander Polyakov
- Nathan Seiberg
- Ashoke Sen
- Edward Witten

The ultimate winner of the 2014 $3 million Fundamental Physics
Prize will be chosen from the three Physics Frontiers Prize
laureates. The remaining Physics Frontiers Prize laureates will
receive a prize of $300,000 and will automatically be re-nominated
for the Fundamental Physics Prize each year for the next 5 years.

All prizes will be awarded for achievements in the field of
fundamental physics, with special attention to recent developments.
The Fundamental Physics Prize and the Physics Frontiers Prize
recognize transformative advances in the field, while the New
Horizons in Physics Prize is targeted at promising junior researchers
and is worth $100,000.

About the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation

The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation is a not-for-profit
corporation established by the Milner Foundation and dedicated to
advancing our knowledge of the Universe at the deepest level by
awarding annual prizes for scientific breakthroughs, as well as
communicating the excitement of fundamental physics to the public.
According to the Foundation's rules, laureates of all prizes are
chosen by a Selection Committee, which is comprised of prior
recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize.

Information on the Fundamental Physics Prize is available at:
http://www.fundamentalphysicsprize.org

For additional inquiries, contact: Leonid Solovyev -
Media@fundamentalphysicsprize.org - +44-7590-976-334

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