Laureates

Alexander Polyakov
Back

Alexander Polyakov

Princeton University

2013 Physics Frontiers Prize in Fundamental Physics

For his many discoveries in field theory and string theory including the conformal bootstrap, magnetic monopoles, instantons, confinement/de-confinement, the quantization of strings in non-critical dimensions, gauge/string duality and many others. His ideas have dominated the scene in these fields during the past decades.