Scientists behind the supergravity theory have won the $3m Physics Breakthrough Prize
- four decades after they first proposed it.
The prize committee said the group"are being honoured for the invention of supergravity, in which quantum variables are part of the description of the geometry of spacetime". The work has been the backbone for many areas of physics, influencing many theories such as string theory.Forty-three years from their ground-breaking theory, the physicists from Italy, Netherlands and the US are still prominent scientists working in physics.
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