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Russian Nobel: Web tycoon founds prize for the best minds in physics

Published time: August 01, 2012 00:36
Edited time: August 01, 2012 14:37
Yuri Milner.(REUTERS / Gonzalo Fuentes)
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The most lucrative annual prize in fundamental physics – almost three times the amount of the Nobel – has been established by Russian tycoon Yuri Milner. He announced nine initial winners, who will become the jury to select next year's winners.

­The prize is given for the recent achievements of the "greatest minds working in the field of fundamental physics," Milner says. He hopes it will help young physicists who are still at the beginning or peak of their careers to make major contributions in the future.

With each award worth $3 million, the monetary value outperforms the prestigious Nobel Prize, which last year stood at slightly more than $1 million. "There's no mathematical formula of how I came up with that number, but I wanted to send a message that fundamental science is important, so the sum had to be significant," Milner told The Guardian.

Milner’s prize has several crucial differences from the Nobel. First of all, the candidates will be nominated online and the selection of the winners will be open, in contrast to the secretive gathering and closed voting process of the Nobel. Secondly, the new prizes can go to younger researchers, before their theoretical breakthroughs are proved experimentally.

­Yuri Milner, 50, made a fortune on Internet giant Mail.ru Group and investment fund DST. He also owns minor stakes in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and Groupon. Milner left Moscow State University in 1985 with an advanced degree in theoretical physics. He later abandoned the PhD track for an MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Furthermore, a single prize can also be given to a large group of researchers, while the Nobel can only be shared among three scientists.

This year’s winners announced by Milner will share a total prize of $27 million. They will also form a committee that will select next year’s winners in the first quarter of 2013.

Besides the nine main prizes, Milner has established an annual New Horizons in Physics prize for promising young researchers and a special prize for groundbreaking discoveries that can be awarded at any time, skipping the standard nomination process.

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Satish Chandra (unregistered) 04.08.2012 18:56

In a press release on May 27, 2012 I said : "An operative of CIA-RAW, which works for American rule over India and is responsible for all insurgencies and separatism in India -- see 'What You Should Know About RAW' ( WhatYouShouldKnowAbo utRAWDOTblogspotDOTc om ) -- is posting repeated comments on Times of India on how an Indian boy from Bengal who cracked centuries-old Math problems is Tamil because the scientific community in India is predominantly Tamil. Nobel Prizes, even in science, are awarded by Westerners to serve their imperialist interests. It is well known that Tagore got the Nobel Prize because he wrote 'Jana Gana Mana' as a hymn to the visiting British emperor. An Indian from Uttar Pradesh would easily merit half a dozen Nobel Prizes but an Economics Nobel was given to a mediocre man, Amartya Sen, as a substitute for the former to keep the Westerners' crimes against the former covered up; see 'How India's Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More': HowIndiasEconomyCanG rowDOTblogspotDOTcom . Tamils are given Nobel Prizes because they are seen as less resisting of Westerners' rule/domination of the subcontinent; the British got into the subcontinent primarily through Bengal and Madras. Jews get a lot of Nobel prizes because of their ferocious crimes; see 'This Is What The Jews Have Been Doing': ThisIsWhatTheJewsHav eBeenDoingDOTblogspo tDOTcom . On knowing this, Rajiv Gandhi when prime minister proposed that  India have its own 'Nobel' prizes, but RAW nixed it."
In response to what I said above, the Jews, through a Jewish billionaire in Russia, have awarded a prize of three million dollars each to nine physicists including an Indian, Ashoke Sen, who, like Amartya Sen, is mediocre,  to retain their control of which Indian scientists they will 'recognize' -- the mediocre ones -- and which they will destroy -- the best. The same is the case for 'recognition' from the Americans, the British and other white countries. The Jews' assault on the world's greatest scientist in a Harvard University seminar, which I described in a letter to Indira Gandhi as prime minister as "the equivalent of an annihilatory nuclear first strike on India", exceeds a million times a million of such three million dollar prizes they may award to Indians. The punishment will be commensurate with the crime. Satish Chandra

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Satish Chandra (unregistered) 04.08.2012 07:29

In a press release on May 27, 2012 I said : "An operative of CIA-RAW, which works for American rule over India and is responsible for all insurgencies and separatism in India -- see 'What You Should Know About RAW' ( WhatYouShouldKnowAbo utRAWDOTblogspotDOTc om ) -- is posting repeated comments on Times of India on how an Indian boy from Bengal who cracked centuries-old Math problems is Tamil because the scientific community in India is predominantly Tamil. Nobel Prizes, even in science, are awarded by Westerners to serve their imperialist interests. It is well known that Tagore got the Nobel Prize because he wrote 'Jana Gana Mana' as a hymn to the visiting British emperor. An Indian from Uttar Pradesh would easily merit half a dozen Nobel Prizes but an Economics Nobel was given to a mediocre man, Amartya Sen, as a substitute for the former to keep the Westerners' crimes against the former covered up; see 'How India's Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More': HowIndiasEconomyCanG rowDOTblogspotDOTcom . Tamils are given Nobel Prizes because they are seen as less resisting of Westerners' rule/domination of the subcontinent; the British got into the subcontinent primarily through Bengal and Madras. Jews get a lot of Nobel prizes because of their ferocious crimes; see 'This Is What The Jews Have Been Doing': ThisIsWhatTheJewsHav eBeenDoingDOTblogspo tDOTcom . On knowing this, Rajiv Gandhi when prime minister proposed that  India have its own 'Nobel' prizes, but RAW nixed it."
In response to what I said above, the Jews, through a Jewish billionaire in Russia, have awarded a prize of three million dollars each to nine physicists including an Indian, Ashoke Sen, who, like Amartya Sen, is mediocre,  to retain their control of which Indian scientists they will 'recognize' -- the mediocre ones -- and which they will destroy -- the best. The Jews' assault on the world's greatest scientist in a Harvard University seminar, which I described in a letter to Indira Gandhi as prime minister as "the equivalent of an annihilatory nuclear first strike on India", exceeds a million times a million of such three million dollar prizes they may award to Indians. The punishment will be commensurate with the crime. Satish Chandra

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