Xie Chen along with former Caltech postdoc Lukasz Fidkowski, now at University of Washington; Michael Levin, University of Chicago; and Max A. Metlitski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology received the the 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize For incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.
Caltech’s Katherine L. (Katie) Bouman has been named a recipient of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics as part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team that generated the first-ever image of a black hole, while Xie Chen and Xinwen Zhu have each received 2020 New Horizons prizes from the same foundation for their work in physics and mathematics, respectively. Read more about the prizes and Caltech’s recipients in this Caltech Media story.
