Sergio Ferrara, along with Dr. David Freedman of MIT and Dr. Peter van Nieuwenhuizen of SUNY Stony Brook, has been chosen to receive the 2006 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, awarded by the American Physical Society.

The citation on the prize is for constructing supergravity, the first supersymmetric extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity, and for their central role in its subsequent development.

This is a major award, and the department can take genuine pride in the fact that a member of our faculty has earned it.