The purpose of the Weyl Prize is to provide recognition for young scientists who have performed original work of significant scientific quality in the area of understanding physics through symmetries.
Their contributions should be in one or more of the following fields: group theory; development of new mathematical tools for the description of physical phenomena; interpretation of experimental results; formulation of general laws based on symmetries.
Weyl Prize awardees:
- 2002 Edward Frenkel
- 2004 Nikita Nekrasov
- 2006 Bojko Bakalov
- 2008 Shahin Sheikh-Jabbari
- 2010 Giulio Chiribella
- 2012 Razvan Gurau
- 2014 Yuji Tachikawa
- 2016 Vasily Pestun
- 2018 Simon Caron-Huot (McGill) and David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech)
