According to a press release issued by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, one of the institute's professors, Dr. Zohar Komargodski, was awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize on Tuesday.

The New Horizons in Physics Prize, which carries an award of $100,000, is given out to three young, promising researchers every year by the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation.

Dr. Komargodski did his postdoctoral fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, after receiving his PhD in Physics from the Weizmann Institute in 2008. Upon the completion of his fellowship, he joined the Weizmann Institute Particle Physics and Astrophysics Department as a senior scientist.

Revealing that one of Dr. Komargodski's noteworthy achievements included an article - providing evidence for a fundamental assumption concerning theories of quantum fields in four-dimensional space-time - which he co-authored with the Institute's Prof. Adam Schwimmer last year, Weizmann Institute said that the research work done by Dr. Komargodski pertains to quantum theory, and unfolds a new perspective on several related fields.

With Dr. Komargodski winning the New Horizons in Physics Prize, it is for the second successive year that an alumnus of Weizmann Institute has received the prestigious award from Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation --- with the inaugural Fundamental Physics Prize last year going to Weizmann graduate Nathan Seiberg.