In July 2012, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner startled the world of physics by establishing the Fundamental Physics Prize, with awards of $3,000,000 each to nine physicists, including well-known cosmologists Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Juan Maldacena and Edward Witten, among others. These physicists now constitute a committee to select future awardees. The 2013 awardee was Alexander Polyakov for his work in quantum field theory and string theory. In December 2013, the 2014 awardees were announced, which are John Schwarz of Caltech and Michael Green of Cambridge.

In 2013, Milner, in partnership with Google founder Sergey Brin, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and

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