Flavio Del Santo obtained this prize for his essay "Striving for Realism, not for Determinism: Historical Misconceptions on Einstein and Bohm.", In his work, highly praised by the competition judges, Del Santo showed that contrarily to the standard narrative, Einstein's and Bohm's philosophical concern was in fact primarily realism and not determinism. The competition also provides a stipend of $1,000, and the essay will be published on "APS News".
