Three physicists will share the first annual Global Energy Prize, to be bestowed by President Vladimir Putin on 15 June in St. Petersburg, Russia. The $900 000 purse will be split by Nick Holonyak of the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, Gennady Mesyats, a vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, and Ian Douglas Smith of Titan Corp in the San Francisco Bay Area.