Breakthrough Prize
The Breakthrough Prize | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding contributions in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics |
Presented by | Breakthrough Prize Board |
First awarded | 2012; 12 years ago (2012) |
Website | breakthroughprize |
The Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by the Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of scientific advances.[1][2] The awards are part of several "Breakthrough" initiatives founded and funded by Yuri Milner and his wife Julia Milner, along with Breakthrough Initiatives and Breakthrough Junior Challenge.
- Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
- Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
The Breakthrough Prizes were founded by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki. The Prizes have been sponsored by the personal foundations established by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Jack Ma, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki.[3] Committees of previous laureates choose the winners from candidates nominated in a process that is online and open to the public.[3]
Laureates receive $3 million each in prize money. They attend a televised award ceremony designed to celebrate their achievements and inspire the next generation of scientists. As part of the ceremony schedule, they also engage in a program of lectures and discussions. Those that go on to make fresh discoveries remain eligible for future Breakthrough Prizes.[3]
Trophy
The trophy was created by artist Olafur Eliasson. Like much of Eliasson's work, the sculpture explores the common ground between art and science. It is molded into the shape of a toroid, recalling natural forms found from black holes and galaxies to seashells and coils of DNA.[4]
Ceremonies
# | Ceremony | Date | Year | Host(s) | Network | Site |
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1st | 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize Ceremony | March 20, 2013 | 2012 | Morgan Freeman | None | Geneva, Switzerland |
2nd | 2014 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony | December 12, 2013 | 2013 | Kevin Spacey | Science Channel | Hangar One, Mountain View, California |
3rd | 2015 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony | November 9, 2014 | 2014 | Seth MacFarlane | Discovery Channel & Science Channel (U.S.) BBC World News (worldwide) | |
4th | 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony | November 8, 2015 | 2015 | National Geographic FOX | ||
5th | 2017 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony | December 4, 2016 | 2016 | Morgan Freeman | ||
6th | 2018 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony | November 3, 2017 | 2017 | National Geographic | ||
7th | 2019 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony | November 4, 2018 | 2018 | Pierce Brosnan | ||
8th | 2020 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony | November 3, 2019 | 2019 | James Corden | ||
9th | 2023 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony | April 15, 2023 | 2020–2022 | YouTube | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Hollywood, Los Angeles | |
10th | 2024 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony | April 13, 2024 | 2023 |
See also
References
- ^ "$22m science prize winners announced". BBC News. 2015-11-09. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
- ^ Knapp, Alex. "2022 Breakthrough Prizes Announced: mRNA Vaccine Pioneers Awarded $3 Million". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
- ^ a b c "Breakthrough Prize – About". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- ^ "Breakthrough Prize: Trophy". Breakthrough Prize. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
External links
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- Ian Agol (2016)
- Jean Bourgain (2017)
- Christopher Hacon, James McKernan (2018)
- Vincent Lafforgue (2019)
- Alex Eskin (2020)
- Martin Hairer (2021)
- Takuro Mochizuki (2022)
- Daniel A. Spielman (2023)
- Simon Brendle (2024)
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- Nima Arkani-Hamed, Alan Guth, Alexei Kitaev, Maxim Kontsevich, Andrei Linde, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg, Ashoke Sen, Edward Witten (2012)
- Special: Stephen Hawking, Peter Jenni, Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS), Michel Della Negra, Tejinder Virdee, Guido Tonelli, Joseph Incandela (CMS) and Lyn Evans (LHC) (2013)
- Alexander Polyakov (2013)
- Michael Green and John Henry Schwarz (2014)
- Saul Perlmutter and members of the Supernova Cosmology Project; Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess and members of the High-Z Supernova Team (2015)
- Special: Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss and contributors to LIGO project (2016)
- Yifang Wang, Kam-Biu Luk and the Daya Bay team, Atsuto Suzuki and the KamLAND team, Kōichirō Nishikawa and the K2K / T2K team, Arthur B. McDonald and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory team, Takaaki Kajita and Yōichirō Suzuki and the Super-Kamiokande team (2016)
- Joseph Polchinski, Andrew Strominger, Cumrun Vafa (2017)
- Charles L. Bennett, Gary Hinshaw, Norman Jarosik, Lyman Page Jr., David Spergel (2018)
- Special: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (2018)
- Charles Kane and Eugene Mele (2019)
- Special: Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (2019)
- The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2020)
- Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach and Blayne Heckel (2021)
- Special: Steven Weinberg (2021)
- Hidetoshi Katori and Jun Ye (2022)
- Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch, Peter W. Shor (2023)
- John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov (2024)
- Cornelia Bargmann, David Botstein, Lewis C. Cantley, Hans Clevers, Titia de Lange, Napoleone Ferrara, Eric Lander, Charles Sawyers, Robert Weinberg, Shinya Yamanaka and Bert Vogelstein (2013)
- James P. Allison, Mahlon DeLong, Michael N. Hall, Robert S. Langer, Richard P. Lifton and Alexander Varshavsky (2014)
- Alim Louis Benabid, Charles David Allis, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier (2015)
- Edward Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, John Hardy, Helen Hobbs and Svante Pääbo (2016)
- Stephen J. Elledge, Harry F. Noller, Roeland Nusse, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Huda Zoghbi (2017)
- Joanne Chory, Peter Walter, Kazutoshi Mori, Kim Nasmyth, Don W. Cleveland (2018)
- C. Frank Bennett and Adrian R. Krainer, Angelika Amon, Xiaowei Zhuang, Zhijian Chen (2019)
- Jeffrey M. Friedman, Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Arthur L. Horwich, David Julius, Virginia Man-Yee Lee (2020)
- David Baker, Catherine Dulac, Dennis Lo, Richard J. Youle [de] (2021)
- Jeffery W. Kelly, Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman, Shankar Balasubramanian, David Klenerman and Pascal Mayer (2022)
- Clifford P. Brangwynne, Anthony A. Hyman, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, Emmanuel Mignot, Masashi Yanagisawa (2023)
- Carl June, Michel Sadelain, Sabine Hadida, Paul Negulescu, Fredrick Van Goor, Thomas Gasser, Ellen Sidransky and Andrew Singleton (2024)