Viatcheslav Mukhanov receives the BBVA Foundation prize at the award ceremony in Madrid

The international BBVA Foundation awards span eight categories: Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics), Biomedicine, Ecology and Conservation Biology, Information and Communication Technologies, Economics, Finance and Management, Contemporary Music, Climate Change and Development Cooperation.

The price on Frontiers of Knowledge in Basic Sciences was awarded to Stephen Hawking and Viatcheslav Mukhanov for independently discovering that galaxies were formed from quantum fluctuations in the Universe’s earliest days. Viatcheslav Mukhanov is a Severo Ochoa IFT Distinguished Visiting Professor and collaborator of IFT member César Gómez.

More information:

- El País 

- SO(IFT) Distinguished Visiting Professors