Pomeranchuk Prize

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The Pomeranchuk Prize is an international award for theoretical physics, awarded annually since 1998 by the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) from Moscow. [1] It is named after Russian physicist Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk, who together with Landau established the Theoretical Physics Department of the Institute.

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  1. "Pomeranchuk Prize Winners 2014". Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  2. http://www.itep.ru/science/pomeranshuk/detail.php?ID=1695 Премия Померанчука > 2016 - Curtis J. Callan и Юрий Симонов
  3. www.itep.ru https://web.archive.org/web/20150518094904/http://www.itep.ru/rus/in_rus_itep.shtml?pprize%2Fppw2015.html. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)