International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics

The Wigner Medal was an award designed "to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through Group Theory". It was administered by The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, a publicly supported organization.{{cite web|url=http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/wigner_bylaws.pdf|title=The Wigner Medal Bylaws|publisher=The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation|accessdate=2007-08-07|archive-date=2014-08-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817051606/http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/wigner_bylaws.pdf|url-status=dead}} The first award was given in 1978 to Eugene Wigner at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics.{{cite web|url=http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/|title=The Wigner Medal|publisher=The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation|accessdate=2007-08-07|archive-date=2007-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102071620/http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/|url-status=dead}}

The collaboration between the Standing Committee of the ICGTMP and the Foundation ended in 2020.

The Standing Committee does not recognize the post-2018 Wigner Medals awarded by the Foundation as the continuation of the prize from 1978 through 2018.{{Cite web |title=The Weyl–Wigner Award {{!}} International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics |url=https://icgtmp.blogs.uva.es/the-weyl-wigner-award/ |access-date=2023-10-08 |language=en-US}}

In 2020{{ndash}}21, the ICGTMP Standing Committee created a new prize to replace the Wigner Medal, called the Weyl–Wigner Award. The purpose of the Weyl–Wigner Award is "to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through group theory, continuing the tradition of The Wigner Medal that was awarded at the International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics from 1978 to 2018." The recipients of this prize are chosen by an international selection committee elected by the Standing Committee.

The first Weyl–Wigner Award was awarded in Strasbourg in July 2022 during the ICGTMP Group34 Colloquium to Nicolai Reshetikhin.

The Hermann Weyl Prize was established to award young scientists "who have performed original work of significant scientific quality in the area of understanding physics through symmetries".{{Cite web |title=Hermann Weyl Prize |url=https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/23498/page/2667-hermann-weyl-prize |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=The 34th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics}}

Heinz-Dietrich Doebner convinced the Standing Committee that it would be necessary for the future development of the field to acknowledge young researchers who presented outstanding work and to motivate them, to continue and to diversify their activity. He proposed to award in each Colloquium a Prize. Ivan Todorov suggested to name this Prize after the mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl. The first Weyl Prize was awarded in 2002 to Edward Frenkel.{{cn|date=October 2023}}

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• [https://icgtmp.blogs.uva.es/ ICGTMP Homepage]
• [http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/ Wigner Medal Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102071620/http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/ |date=2007-11-02 }}
• [https://icgtmp.blogs.uva.es/the-weyl-wigner-award/ 2018 Wigner Medal reform]

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