‘First Mustafa Prizes for fundamental physics’
CERN Courier has published a news report on the 2021 Mustafa(Pbuh) Prize laureates, noting that it is the first time this Prize is granted to fundamental science researchers.
MSTF Media reports:
The 2021 Mustafa
Prize laureates who were announced in October, have attracted worldwide media attention. Amid the abundant news coverage of the 2021 Mustafa
Prize Award Ceremony, CERN Courier, a high-energy physics magazine based in Switzerland, has published a news report about the winners of this year.
CERN Courier has specifically pointed to the two fundamental scientist winners of the Prize, Cumrun Vafa and Yahya Tayalati, noting “This year is the first time that the prize has been awarded to researchers in fundamental science.”
Yahya Tayalati from Morocco’s Mohammed V University is an “ATLAS researcher” awarded the 2021 Mustafa
Prize for his “contributions to searches for magnetic monopoles and his work on light-by-light scattering, which was first observed by ATLAS in 2019,” CERN Courier wrote.
ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is a general-purpose particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research). According to ATLAS Experiment website, “ATLAS is one of the largest collaborative efforts ever attempted in science.” ATLAS physicists, whose research projects have led to ground-breaking discoveries, are studying the fundamental constituents of matter to better understand the rules behind their interactions.
The other fundamental scientist laureate of this year written about in CERN Courier’s report, is “a leading string theorist,” Cumrun Vafa from Harvard University, recognized for developing F-theory.
It has also pointed to the achievement of another physicist laureate of this round, M. Zahid Hasan from Princeton University. Hasan was recognized for his work on “Weyl-fermion semimetals and topological insulators – materials which are insulators inside but conduct on their surfaces,” CERN Courier explains.
The report has further touched upon the establishment of biennial Mustafa
Prize in 2012 and its cash award.
CERN Courier has been reporting the news of international high-energy physics for six decades. Highlighting the latest developments in particle physics and related fields around the world, it covers the latest research breakthroughs and project developments and offers a record of the ongoing endeavor to advance the frontiers of scientific knowledge.
