Theoretical physicists win massive awards : Nature News: Yuri Milner, who has made his fortune investing in social-media companies, announced the newly created Fundamental Physics Prize this morning. The winners work on difficult problems ranging from the Universe's early inflation to string theory (see 'Theoretical millionaires').
At $3 million a head, the new prize dwarfs the Nobel Prize, which this year is valued at around SEK8 million ($1.2 million)...
Andrei Linde, a cosmologist at Stanford University in California, found out about his good fortune only late last week...
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