Prof. Tadashi Takayanagi, the Head Investigator of Extreme Universe, and Prof. Shinsei Ryu, advisor of Extreme Universe, were awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP. This is the first time that Japanese have received this international prize in theoretical physics since Prof. Yoichiro Nambu in 1986. For more details, https://www.ictp.it/news/2024/8/ictp-announces-2024-dirac-medallists