Category: theoretical physics

Well whoo-eesh. Perhaps a few readers of the news of a giant new Milner Prize in fundamental physics felt momentarily satisfied in a culturally-blinkered sort of way, upon seeing the first name Nima on the list, that at least one woman is included among winners of this giant new theoretical physics freebie. Russian gigajillionaire Yuri Milner this week announced his gift of $3 million each to nine people, many of them publically-hailed rock stars of that brigade. But, as many readers of this here tracker site know, Nima Arkani-Hamed is a fella too.

   I am only blogging on this gender angle because while I applaud the winners I am too dim and lazy to comprehend in any real detail what these men do. One tries, but on the work of people such as this my fallback strategy is circumlocution via metaphor and lively quote. Onward - I cannot think off hand of who deserves to be there and lacks a Y chromosome. Lisa Randall comes to mind and I am sure many in the science...