Stony Brook professor wins 2020 Breakthrough Prize in physics Alek LewisNewsOctober 12, 2019October 16, 2019 Physics professor Peter van Nieuwenhuizen will be honored, along with two other physicists, with the 2020 Special Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics on Nov. 3 for their work on a modern field theory called supergravity.
Distinguished physicists discuss mysteries of the universe at Simons Center Michael AdamsFeaturedNewsTop StorySeptember 11, 2017 Stony Brook’s Simons Center for Geometry and Physics hosted lectures by two world-renowned physicists on Tuesday night.