Dirac Medal (ICTP)

The Dirac Medal of the ICTP is given each year by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in honour of physicist Paul Dirac. The award, announced each year on 8 August (Dirac's birthday), was first awarded in 1985.[1]

An international committee of distinguished scientists selects the winners from a list of nominated candidates. The Committee invites nominations from scientists working in the fields of theoretical physics or mathematics.

The Dirac Medal of the ICTP is not awarded to Nobel Laureates, Fields Medalists, or Wolf Prize winners.[1] However, several Dirac Medallists have subsequently won one of these awards.[2][3][4][5]

The medallists receive a prize of US$5,000.

  1. ^ a b "ICTP honors four with Dirac Medals". Physics Today. 40 (5): 107–108. 1987. Bibcode:1987PhT....40e.107.. doi:10.1063/1.2820038.
  2. ^ "Witten and Jones receive Fields Medals for physics-related work". Physics Today. 44 (2): 111–112. 1991. Bibcode:1991PhT....44b.111.. doi:10.1063/1.2810004.
  3. ^ "Wolf Prizes go to Ginzburg, Nambu and Moser". Physics Today. 48 (1): 66. 1995. Bibcode:1995PhT....48Q..66.. doi:10.1063/1.2807883.
  4. ^ Schwarzschild, Bertram (2008). "Physics Nobel Prize to Nambu, Kobayashi, and Maskawa for theories of symmetry breaking". Physics Today. 61 (12): 16–20. Bibcode:2008PhT....61l..16S. doi:10.1063/1.3047652.
  5. ^ "Wolf Foundation honors Wheeler for physics, Keller and Sinai for mathematics". Physics Today. 50 (2): 85. 1997. Bibcode:1997PhT....50Q..85.. doi:10.1063/1.2806531.

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