Scientific Calendar Event



Starts 25 Mar 2026 14:00
Ends 25 Mar 2026 17:00
Central European Time
Hybrid
Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall and via Zoom


ICTP has awarded its 2025 Dirac Medal to four distinguished physicists "for their landmark contributions which have significantly shaped the study of general relativity across many generations. Their work collectively has laid the conceptual and technical foundations of our understanding of gravity, at both the classical and quantum levels".

The 2025 Dirac Medallists are:
 
  • Gary Gibbons, Cambridge University, UK
  • Gary Horowitz, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
  • Roy Kerr, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  • Robert Wald, University of Chicago, USA
 
Further details about the awardees are available at https://www.ictp.it/news/2025/8/2025-ictp-dirac-medal-goes-gravity-explorers


The 2025 Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony will take place on Wednesday 25 March (time to be confirmed) at ICTP (Budinich Lecture Hall). All are welcome to attend.