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According to the Wolf Foundation’s website, Yau will officially receive his award from Israeli President Shimon Peres and Israeli Education Minister and Wolf Foundation Council Chairman Gideon Sa’ar at a ceremony in Jerusalem this May.
Yau added that he hopes that the fund, which will bear his name, will help the university’s students “achieve high scholarship” so “that they may [also] be awarded the Wolf Prize in the future.”
Stony Brook University Professor Dennis P. Sullivan, who shares this year’s prize for mathematics with Yau, will also be recognized during the upcoming ceremony for his work in algebraic topology and conformal dynamics.
Physics Professor Melissa Franklin will replace fellow Professor Christopher W. Stubbs as the chair of the Harvard Physics Department next year, marking the first time in history that the position will be held by a woman.
Franklin will take over the rotating position for a three-year term after returning from Switzerland, where she is currently on sabbatical to analyze data from proton collisions in the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator.