Valery Rubakov awarded with the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2020

11 November 2020, by MIN-Dekanat

The Russian Valery Rubakov received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2020, endowed with 137,036 euros. Rubakov is chief researcher at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and Professor at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. The prize was awarded to Rubakov in November in Hamburg by the Joachim Herz Foundation in cooperation with the Wolfgang Pauli Centre of DESY and Universität Hamburg, the Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and the two clusters of excellence of Universität Hamburg "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" and “Quantum Universe”.

The Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics is one of the highest endowed awards for physics in Germany. The prize money is an allusion to Sommerfeld's fine structure constant, which plays an important role in theoretical physics. Rubakov is one of the most recognized Russian theoretical physicists. He covers a broad field of research and is considered an expert in quantum field theory, elementary particle physics as well as cosmology.

”With Valery Rubakov, this year we are honoring a researcher who has given far-reaching impulses in many areas of theoretical physics and who has shaped our view of the universe significantly. He has made important contributions to our understanding of the period shortly after the Big Bang and the subsequent development of our cosmos. Rubakov’s work helps us to grasp the origin of matter and disappearance of antimatter and thus to answer the question why planets and therefore our existence on earth were able to develop at all,” says Dr. Henneke Lütgerath, chairman of the Joachim Herz Foundation.

Text: JHS, ed.

Further information
www.joachim-herz-stiftung.de/physicsprize