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He is one of the main authors of PYTHIA, a program for generation of high-energy physics events. In 2012, he was awarded the Sakurai Prize by the American Physical Society.
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Torbjorn Sjostrand
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In 2012, he was awarded the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics by the American Physical Society. The citation reads: Foreign key ideas leading to the detailed confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics, enabling high energy experiments to extract precise information about Quantum Chromodynamics, electroweak interactions and possible new physics.
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Sakurai Prize Sakurai Prize
The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual 'April Meeting', and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory.The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual 'April Meeting', and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory.