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The 2016 Breakthrough Prize ceremony was held November 8, 2015 at NASA’s Hangar 1 in Mountain View, California. Host Seth MacFarlane was joined by Christina Aguilera, Russell Crowe, Kate Hudson, Hilary Swank, Lily Collins, Thomas Middleditch and Martin Starr, who presented the Breakthrough Prizes alongside Silicon Valley's Sal Khan, Sundar ...
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Nov 9, 2015 · Winners of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize awards in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday evening. ... The awards were given out in an Oscar-style ceremony hosted by the founders and Graydon Carter, the ...
The Breakthrough Prize ceremony is an annual celebration to honor the new laureates and introduce them to the public. It is broadcast globally and features short films about the scientists and their work, presentations by celebrities and live music from world-renowned artists. The evening draws together the stars of science with leading figures ...
- 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
- 2016 New Horizons in Physics Prize
- 2016 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
- 2016 Breakthrough Junior Challenge
The Breakthrough Prize in Life Scienceshonors transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life, with one prize dedicated to work that contributes to the understanding of Parkinson’s disease and neurodegenerative disorders. Edward S. Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: for the development and implementa...
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physicsrecognizes major insights into the deepest questions of the Universe. To the five teams below and their combined 1,377 team leaders and members the award is presented for the fundamental discovery and exploration of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the stan...
The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematicshonors the world’s best mathematicians who have contributed to major advances in the field. Ian Agol, University of California at Berkeley and Institute for Advanced Study: for spectacular contributions to low dimensional topology and geometric group theory, including work on the solutions of the tameness, virtu...
The New Horizons in Physics Prizeis awarded to promising junior researchers who have already produced important work in fundamental physics. B. Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University, Liang Fu, MIT, Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University, for outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics, especially involving the use of topology to understand ne...
The New Horizons in Mathematics Prizeis awarded to promising junior researchers who have already produced important work in mathematics. Larry Guth, MIT: for ingenious and surprising solutions to long standing open problems in symplectic geometry, Riemannian geometry, harmonic analysis, and combinatorial geometry. André Arroja Neves, Imperial Colle...
The inaugural Breakthrough Junior Challengewinner is Ryan Chester, North Royalton High School, Ohio, for his science video, “Some ways to understand the special theory of relativity, and what it means about time.” About the Breakthrough Prize:Founded by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerbe...
Nov 9, 2015 · MIT researchers took home several awards last night at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize ceremony at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.. Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for “transformative ...
Nov 9, 2015 · MIT researchers took home several awards last night at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize ceremony at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.. Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for “transformative ...
