 In the following decades it had implications for physics beyond the Standard Model, for superstring theory and for mathematics.For his work on supergravity, Freedman, a former Sloan and twice Guggenheim fellow, received in 1993 the Dirac Medal and Prize, in 2006 the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, in 2016 the Majorana Medal and in 2019 the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, in each case together with his codiscoverers Sergio Ferrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen.Freedman also gave the 2002 Andrejewski Lectures in Mathematical Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.