One of this year the Spinoza prize goes to Erik Verlinde. It comes with 2.5 million euros to the winner of research fund. Last autumn Verlinde received a 2 million euro ERC Advanced Grant for the funding of its research programme, so that's a total of 4.5 million euros, or about $ 6.5 million this past year.
Verlinde's current research focuses on the ideas about "emergent gravity" (see here and here). According to Wikipedia explains his work the observed value of the cosmological constant.
I have no idea how Verlinde will spend the money, but it seems that emerging Ernst research particularly well will be financed. 6.5 million dollars that I would estimate corresponds to approximately 100 post-doctoral years. In a few weeks will Verlinde reveal his latest work on strings 2011. Because that is one of the most expensive conferences around (see here), maybe he could chip in to fund. He must be able to finance one strings 20XX via at least 2,050 I would estimate.
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