The $3 million physicists
This is so cool! This Russian billionaire named Yuri Milner has established a prize called the Fundamental Physics Prize to reward distinguished physicists around the world. Physicists are known for not being very knowledgeable about money, maybe mostly because they don't have much of it. And also maybe because they are too preoccupied with trying to figure out how the universe got here and what makes it tick to worry about things like money. Milner, himself, it seems, is a physics drop-out. He dropped out of graduate school in 1989 and went on to make his billions by investing in Internet companies like Facebook and Groupon. Anyway, Milner established this physics prize which carries with it an award to each winning individual of $3 million, making it the most lucrative academic prize in the world. The Nobel Prize, by comparison, comes in at a paltry $1.2 million. The winners of the prize were nine physicists from around the world, most of whom I had never hear...