Physicist Maldacena to receive Galileo Galilei Medal

The Argentine physicist Juan Martín
Maldacena will receive the Galileo Galilei Medal, which for the first time
delivers the National Institute of Nuclear Physics of Italy.

Maldacena, born in the district of Caballito, is graduated from the Bachelor of Physics of the Balseiro Institute of Bariloche and currently a research fellow at the IAS in Princeton, USA, where he resides.

Multiplied in the scientific world, he received last year the Lorentz Medal, awarded every four years by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Netherlands. He also received the Yuri Milner Foundation's "Fundamental Physics Award" and in Argentina he was awarded Konex Award for Brilliant and Platinum.

The new Galileo Galilei award, awarded "for pioneering ideas in theoretical physics, and in particular by the discovery of the duality between the theory of gravity and that of quantum fields, with profound implications. "

The The National Institute of Nuclear Physics of Italy awards this award for the first time in collaboration with the Galileo Galilei Institute located in Florence, and the announcement was made on Friday on the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of scientist Galilei.

The Italian nuclear agency pointed out that "Maldacena is one of the most influential personalities in theoretical physics of recent decades. His many and fundamental ideas have opened new perspectives in the field of string theory, field theory and quantum gravity. "