ICTP Announces 2026 Dirac Medal Recipients (Physics)

ICTP has awarded its 2026 Dirac Medal to four physicists who have made important contributions to statistical mechanics, a framework used by physicists to describe the collective behaviour of systems with many constituents, and have used it to explore far-ranging concepts in theoretical physics with implications for real-world advancements, from the study of biological systems to that of financial markets and to artificial intelligence.