2017 · Q27
Who among the following are awarded with the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the year 2017?
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- AStephen W Hawking and Roger Penrose
- BRonald Drever, Kip S Thorne and Rainer Weiss
- CJoseph Polchinski, Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa
- DJ Michael Kosterlitz, Duncan Haldane and David J Thouless
Explanation
The 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to Joseph Polchinski, Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa for transformative advances in string theory and quantum gravity. The LIGO trio of Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss received the Special Breakthrough Prize in 2016, while Hawking–Penrose and the Kosterlitz–Haldane–Thouless trio are not the 2017 laureates. Hence (C).