International Award

Recipients of the Isaac Newton medal of the Institute of Physics

2009
Professor Alan H Guth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For his invention of the inflationary universe model, his recognition that inflation would solve major problems confronting then-standard cosmology, and his calculation, with others, of the spectrum of density fluctuations that gave rise to structure in the universe.
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2008
Prof Dr Anton Zeilinger
University of Vienna
For his pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information.
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Newton lecture

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