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The 2016 Breakthrough Prize ceremony was held November 8, 2015 at NASA’s Hangar 1 in Mountain View, California.
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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 ...
- 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...
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.
9. Nov. 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.
9. Nov. 2015 · The awards take the form of seven $3 million awards, one of which was split among roughly 1,300 physicists; $500,000 split among eight early-career researchers; and $400,000 to a high...
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist Yuri Milner.
