WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR 1426H - 2006G

KING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

for

Science

 

Riyadh, 25 Dhu Al-Qa'dah - 27 December 2005, HRH Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, Director of King Faisal Foundation, tonight announced the winners of the King Faisal International Prize.

The prize for Science (Topic: Mathematics) has been awarded jointly to:

Professor
Simon Kirwan Donaldson

(UK)

President of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London

Professor
Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan

(India)

Honorary Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India

 

 

for their seminal contributions to theories which have strengthened the links between mathematics and physics, and helped provide a rigorous foundation for physical theories giving a very good description of the laws of matter at the sub-nuclear level. This has helped establish strong ties with the formulation of quantum chromodynamics for which the King Faisal Prize was given last year (in physics).

 

 

 

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