Nine physicists have been awarded $3 million (£1.9m) each by the Milner Foundation for “transformative advances” in the field.
The foundation was set up by investor Yuri Milner, and says its new prize is the highest-value annual prize for scientific achievement in the world. By comparison, last year’s Nobel prizes were worth around $1.2m each.
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