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The $3 Million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was shared between theorists Sergio Ferrara (CERN), Daniel Z. Freedman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University), and ...

Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen are being honored for their 1976 find. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Physicists Sergio Ferrara, Dan Freedman, and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen will split a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for their theory of supergravity, which drives much of today’s physics research toward ...

Three theoretical physicists have won the Breakthrough Prize for developing a way to connect general relativity with particle physics. One of the biggest conundrums in physics is the disconnect ...

The three architects of supergravity are getting some high-profile recognition, more than four decades after they developed the influential theory. Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Freedman and Peter van ...

Announced on July 6, 2019, the Selection Committee of Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physic has picked three theoretical physicists, Sergio Ferrara (CERN), Daniel Z. Freedman (MIT and ...

Conformal supergravity and superspace theories represent an advanced framework in theoretical physics that merges the principles of supersymmetry with local conformal invariance. This approach extends ...

Three scientists are getting a $3-million US prize for coming up with supergravity, a theory that suggests how to bring together the gravity that governs huge things like galaxies and the quantum ...

Scientists behind the supergravity theory have won the $3m Physics Breakthrough Prize - four decades after they first proposed it. Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen have ...

Scientists behind the supergravity theory have won the $3m Physics Breakthrough Prize - four decades after they first proposed it. Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen have ...