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Discoveries in Physics Research
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Shu-Heng Shao, assistant professor of physics and researcher in the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics — a Leinweber Institute, awarded 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize.
Recognized with three others, including Yifan Wang PhD ’16, for “discover[ing] and develop[ing] the theory of ‘generalized symmetries’ in quantum field theory."
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