abstract:The Young Medal and Prize is a prize awarded on odd numbered years by the Institute of Physics in the memory of Thomas Young for distinguished research in the field of optics, including physics outside the visible region.
D. from Princeton at 20 and in 2000 became the youngest faculty member to be appointed a full professor at UCLA. In 2006 he won both the Fields Medal, a sort of Nobel Prize for young mathematicians, and a MacArthur grant.