ICTP has awarded its 2024 Dirac Medal to four physicists who have made pioneering contributions to the understanding of quantum entropy in gravity and quantum field theory.
The winners are:
- Horacio Casini, a researcher with the National Scientific and Technical Council (CONICET), and the Bariloche Atomic Centre, in Argentina. He is a recipient of the 2015 New Horizons in Physics Prize.
- Marina Huerta, a researcher with CONICET and the Bariloche Atomic Centre, in Argentina. She is a recipient of the 2015 New Horizons in Physics Prize.
- Shinsei Ryu, a professor of physics at Princeton University. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Simons investigator award, Nishina Memorial Prize, and the 2015 New Horizons in Physics Prize.
- Tadashi Takayanagi, a physics professor at Kyoto University. He has been awarded the Yukawa-Kimura Prize in 2011, the Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize in 2013 and the New Horizons in Physics Prize in 2015.
The award cites “their insights on quantum entropy in quantum gravity and quantum field theories”.
Established in 1985, the ICTP Dirac Medal recognises important contributions to the field of theoretical physics. Medallists include leading figures in the discipline, many of whom went on to receive even more important awards, such as the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal.
Source: ICTP
On this occasion, we would like to share with you some of the contributions to the 2022 edition of IFT’s #YoFisica initiative: #YoFisicaEnComic, where we invited young people to portray their favourite female physicist in a comic, mural or drawing. With the material we received, we made a compilation video, a digital book with all the entries and a summary poster. These are the comics with Marina Huerta, 2024 Dirac Medallist, as the protagonist.
Lorena Tendero
IES Newton-Salas, Villanueva de la Torre, Guadalajara
