>In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.[8]
ノーベル賞の３倍の賞金、$3 millionだそうです
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Physics_Prize The Fundamental Physics Prize is awarded by the The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation which is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to awarding physicists involved in fundamental research which was founded in July 2012 by physicist and internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner.[1] This prize is the most lucrative academic prize in the world as of July 2012 and it is three times bigger than the amount given to the Nobel awardees.[2][3] This prize is also dubbed by the media as 'Russian Nobel'.[4] This is world's biggest prize in physics as of July 2012.[5]
Award money As of July 2012, each award is worth $3 million, the monetary value exceeds that of the prestigious Nobel Prize, which last year stood at slightly more than $1 million.[2][4]
