Sir Richard Henry Friend, FRS, is the chair of the VinFuture Prize Council and holds the Cavendish Professorship of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He is one of the world’s most influential physicists and serves as director of the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability.
The VinFuture Foundation awards a grand prize of $3 million, but also awards special prizes to innovators from low- and middle-income countries, women innovators, and innovations in emerging fields.
