What Fundamental Physics Prize winner created and studied another version of S-brands that differed from the work of AndrewStrominger?
Ashoke Sen
Ashoke Sen
Ashoke Sen, FRS ( ; Bengali: অশোক সেন ; born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.
 He also is the Morningstar Visiting professor at MIT and a distinguished professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
 His main area of work is String Theory.
 He was among the first recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize “for opening the path to the realisation that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory”.
 Of the prizes for theoretical physics, the Fundamental Physics Prize is the one which pays the most prize money.
S-brane
In string theory, an S-brane is a hypothetical and controversial counterpart of a D-brane, which, unlike a D-brane, is localized in time.
 Depending on the context the "S" stands for "Strominger", "Sen", or "Space-like".
 The S-brane was originally proposed by Andrew Strominger in his speculative paper with Michael Gutperle, and another version of S-branes was studied by Ashoke Sen.
 They are thought to be extended in the space-like/temporal directions only, so that they exist at only one point in time, but are otherwise analogous to p-branes.
Kam-Biu Luk
Kam-Biu Luk (, born 1953) is a professor of physics, with a focus on particle physics, at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty member in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's physics division.
 Luk has conducted research on neutrino oscillation and CP violation.
 Luk and his collaborator Yifang Wang were awarded the 2014 Panofsky Prize “for their leadership of the Daya Bay experiment, which produced the first definitive measurement of θ angle of the neutrino mixing matrix.”
 His work on neutrino oscillation also received 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics shared with other teams.
 Luk is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The Fundamental Physics Prize is awarded by the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to awarding physicists involved in fundamental research which was founded in July 2012 by Russian physicist and internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner. Andrei Linde
Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде ; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
 Linde is one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory, as well as the theory of eternal inflation and inflationary multiverse.
 He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Moscow State University.
 In 1975, Linde was awarded a Ph.D. from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.
 He worked at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) since 1989 and moved to the USA in 1990 where he became Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
 Among the various awards he's received for his work on inflation, in 2002 he was awarded the Dirac Medal, along with Alan Guth of MIT and Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University.
 In 2004 he received, along with Alan Guth, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology for the development of inflationary cosmology.
 In 2012 he, along with Alan Guth, was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize.
 In 2014 he received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics “for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation", together with Alan Guth and Alexei Starobinsky. Maxim Kontsevich
Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (Russian: Макси́м Льво́вич Конце́вич ;   ; born 25 August 1964) is a Russian and French mathematician.
 He is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami.
 He received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997, the Fields Medal in 1998, the Crafoord Prize in 2008, the Shaw Prize and Fundamental Physics Prize in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014. Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is a U.S. astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
 He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003.
 He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
 Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics
The Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics, commonly known as MIFP, is a private independent non-governmental institution created in order to unite scientists in different countries around the world working in all fields of physics.
 MIFP is a non-profit organization whose main goal is to provide efficient and flexible management of international collaboration projects and teaching programmes, to ease and increase the communication between leading researchers in different areas of fundamental and applied physics, and to organize international scientific meetings, workshops, schools and conferences.
 It is located in Marino, Rome, Italy. Special sciences
Special sciences are those sciences other than fundamental physics, that are presumed to be reducible to fundamental physics, at least in principle.
 In this view, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience—indeed, all sciences except fundamental physics—are special sciences.
 The status of the special sciences, and their relation to physics, is unresolved in the philosophy of science.
 Jerry Fodor, for instance, has argued for "strong autonomy", concluding that the special sciences are not even in principle reducible to physics. Constructor theory
Constructor theory is a proposal for a new mode of explanation in fundamental physics, first sketched out by David Deutsch, a quantum physicist at the University of Oxford, in 2012.
 Constructor theory expresses physical laws exclusively in terms of what physical transformations, or tasks, are possible versus which are impossible, and why.
 By allowing such counterfactual statements into fundamental physics, it allows new physical laws to be expressed, for instance those of the constructor theory of information.