Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf, is a Dutch theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theorist and former politician. He served as the Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands from 2022 until 2024.
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The last two years have seen the emergence of a beautiful new subject in mathematical physics.
Mirror symmetry is concerned with counting the number of holomorphic curves on Calabi-Yau manifolds, i.e. compact Kähler manifolds X with trivial canonical bundle KX.
I would be willing to bet that whatever formulations of quantum field theory we have now are preliminary ...
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Brian SchmidtAlso won Fellow of the International Science Council
Ben FeringaAlso won Spinoza Prize
Árpád GönczAlso won honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sergey StarostinAlso won Honorary doctor of Leiden University
Linda de MolAlso won Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Burt RutanAlso won honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit BrusselAbout this person
Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf, is a Dutch theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theorist and former politician. He served as the Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands from 2022 until 2024. From July 2012 until his inauguration as a minister, he had been the director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a tenured professor at the University of Amsterdam. As of January 2025, Robbert is the president-elect of the International Science Council.
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