FRANK VERSTRAETE: HERMANN KUEMMEL AWARD 2007

摘要

It is a great pleasure and undeserved honor to be in front of you presentingFrank Verstraete as he is awarded the Hermann Kuemmel early achievement awardin Many-body Physics. The pleasure is multiple. On one hand, Frank is its firstrecipient and on the other Professor Hermann Kuemmel is present among us. As I will argue in the following, Frank has set a standard of excellence thatit will be very difficult to match in future awards. Moreover, I believe and hopethat he will become a role model for generations of young physicists who envisionunconventional approaches to attack Physics problems but are afraid to pursue thembecause of conventional wisdom. Needless to mention that Science needs provocativeand unbounded young minds able to unknot the bundle of surprises Nature confrontus with.