Glitz & Qubits — Caltech Magazine
When the first email came, Alexei Kitaev ignored it. The subject heading said something about a physics award, but he thought it was just spam. “Then I received another email,” says the Caltech physicist. “So I actually took a look and understood that it was real.” Real it was. K
Glitz & Qubits E&S Magazine Mar 16 Written By Jon Nalick When the first email came, Alexei Kitaev ignored it. The subject heading said something about a physics award, but he thought it was just spam. “Then I received another email,” says the Caltech physicist. “So I actually took a look and understood that it was real.” Real it was. Kitaev had won the first ever Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics , established in 2012 by Russian billionaire entrepreneur Yuri Milner. And this new prize came with $3 million—three times what winners of the Nobel Prize get. Unlike the Nobels, the money isn
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