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The American Physical Society recognized a number of MIT affiliates with honors and prizes for their contributions to physics. Honorees include Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Yuan Cao, Alina Kononov, Elliott H. Lieb, and Haocun Yu.
Mark Braverman was awarded the IMU's Abacus Medal for his work in information science. Elliott Lieb was awarded the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for his work in physics, chemistry and math.