Husband & wife team from Perimeter win $100,000 physics prize
Posted Nov 12, 2014 07:31:32 AM.
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A husband and wife team who work out of Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute have won a prestigious New Horizons in Physics Prize.
It’s an award that carries with it a $100,000 prize.
Natalia Toro and Philip Schuster were honoured for their “groundbreaking approach to new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider, and for spearheading new experimental searches for dark matter and unknown forces.”
It marks the third year in a row Perimeter faculty members have won a New Horizons Prize.
The prize is awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
“This recognition of Philip and Natalia’s work is thoroughly deserved,” said Perimeter Director Neil Turok. “They have brought a clarity and focus to research in high-energy physics which is both rare and very valuable to the field.”
