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- Due to the global pandemic, however, this year’s ceremony has been postponed until March 2021.
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Nov 5, 2018 · The Breakthrough Prize celebration includes a daylong symposium in the three prize fields: physics, life sciences and mathematics. The symposium is co-sponsored by Stanford University, UC San Francisco, and UC Berkeley, where this year’s symposium takes place.
- The Breakthrough Prize
The Breakthrough Prizes aim to celebrate science and...
- The Breakthrough Prize
Dec 3, 2017 · The Breakthrough Prizes aim to celebrate science and scientists, promote a culture that venerates knowledge, and generate excitement about STEM careers. They are the world’s largest science awards, presented annually at a televised ceremony in Silicon Valley.
Symposiums. The annual Breakthrough Prize celebration has included symposiums in the three recognized fields sponsored by UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Stanford University. The program has featured lectures by Breakthrough Prize laureates and other renowned scientists, as well as moderated panel discussions aimed at the general public.
Sep 10, 2020 · The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the esteemed recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize, recognizing a spectacular array of groundbreaking achievements in the Life...
- 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
- 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- 2021 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
- 2021 New Horizons in Physics Prize
- 2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize
- About The Breakthrough Prize
David Baker, University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Citation: For developing technology that allowed the design of proteins never seen before in nature, including novel protei...Catherine Dulac, Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Citation: For deconstructing the complex behavior of parenting to the level of cell-types and their wiring, and demonstrating...Yuk Ming Dennis Lo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Citation: For discovering that fetal DNA is present in maternal blood and can be used for the prenatal testing of trisomy 21 and other geneti...Richard J. Youle, National Institutes of Health Citation: For elucidating a quality control pathway that clears damaged mitochondria and thereby protects against Parkinson’s Disease.Martin Hairer, Imperial College London Citation: For transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis, particularly the theory of regularity structures in stochastic partial differ...
Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach and Blayne Heckel, University of Washington Citation: For precision fundamental measurements that test our understanding of gravity, probe the nature of dark energ...
Bhargav Bhatt, University of Michigan Citation: For outstanding work in commutative algebra and arithmetic algebraic geometry, particularly on the development of p-adic cohomology theories.Aleksandr Logunov, Princeton University Citation: For novel techniques to study solutions to elliptic equations, and their application to long-standing problems in nodal geometry.Song Sun, University of California, Berkeley Citation: For many groundbreaking contributions to complex differential geometry, including existence results for Kahler-Einstein metrics and connection...Tracy Slatyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Citation: For major contributions to particle astrophysics, from models of dark matter to the discovery of the “Fermi Bubbles.”Rouven Essig, Stony Brook University Javier Tiffenberg, Fermilab Tomer Volansky, Tel Aviv University Tien-Tien Yu, University of Oregon Citation: For advances in the detection of sub-GeV dark matte...Ahmed Almheiri, Institute for Advanced Study Netta Engelhardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Henry Maxfield, University of California, Santa Barbara Geoff Penington, University of Californi...Nina Holden, ETH Zurich (PhD MIT 2018) Citation: For work in random geometry, particularly on Liouville Quantum Gravity as a scaling limit of random triangulations.Urmila Mahadev, Caltech (PhD University of California, Berkeley 2018) Citation: For work that addresses the fundamental question of verifying the output of a quantum computation.Lisa Piccirillo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD University of Texas at Austin 2019) Citation: For resolving the classic problem that the Conway knot is not smoothly slice.For the ninth year the Breakthrough Prize, renowned as the “Oscars of Science,” will recognize the world’s top scientists. Each prize is $3 million and presented in the fields of Life Sciences (up to four per year), Fundamental Physics (one per year) and Mathematics (one per year). In addition, up to three New Horizons in Physics Prizes, up to thre...
Sep 9, 2021 · Including the New Horizons and New Frontiers prizes for early-career achievements, a total of $15.75 million is conferred this year, bringing the total amount awarded to pioneering scientists and...
Breakthrough Prize laureates are honored at an annual awards ceremony broadcast globally. In addition, some ceremony events have included symposiums featuring lectures and discussions with Breakthrough Prize laureates and leading scientists from across the world. Ceremonies; Symposiums; Public Lectures
