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The Weyl-Wigner AwardThe Weyl-Wigner Award
Wigner medalists:
It is the aim of the Standing Committee that the new Weyl-Wigner Award keeps the high standards of quality and excellence of the Wigner Medal. The purpose of the Weyl-Wigner Award is to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through group theory, continuing the tradition of the Wigner Medal. Contributions recognized by the Award may include the development and application of mathematical methods, applications of group theoretical methods in chemistry and other sciences, experimental predictions or formulations of general laws of nature using methods of group theory or representation theory, and other related developments. Group theory shall be construed in its widest sense, to include related mathematical structures. The first Weyl-Wigner Award was awarded, in Strasbourg in July 2022 coinciding with Group34, to Nikolai Reshetikhin of the University of California at Berkeley (USA), for his seminal contributions to representation theory of quantum groups, integrable systems and their applications in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. First Weyl-Wigner Award Selection Committee: E. Zelmanov (Chair, U. California – San Diego), M. Cheng (U. Amsterdam), A. Klimov (U. Guadalajara), S. Serfaty (New York U.), R. Werner (Leibniz U. Hannover). 2022 Weyl-Wigner winner (first winner): Nikolai Reshetikhin |