{"id":94501,"date":"2019-08-06T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/physicists-to-split-3-million-breakthrough-prize-for-supergravity"},"modified":"2019-08-06T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T22:22:54","slug":"physicists-to-split-3-million-breakthrough-prize-for-supergravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/physicists-to-split-3-million-breakthrough-prize-for-supergravity","title":{"rendered":"Physicists to Split $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for Supergravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-to-split-3-million-breakthrough-prize-for-supergravity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists Sergio Ferrara, Dan Freedman, and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen will split a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for their theory of supergravity, which drives much of today\u2019s physics research toward our understanding of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The Breakthrough Prize is an annual award to recognize groundbreaking science, funded by Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner. Though Breakthrough Prizes are awarded annually, \u201cspecial\u201d Breakthrough Prizes can be awarded any time and need not honor recent work. In fact, the researchers behind today\u2019s award thought they\u2019d missed the chance to win it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists Sergio Ferrara, Dan Freedman, and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen will split a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for their theory of supergravity, which drives much of today\u2019s physics research toward our understanding of the universe. The Breakthrough Prize is an annual award to recognize groundbreaking science, funded by Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner. Though Breakthrough Prizes are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}