The Breakthrough Prize laureate created by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and giant area of technology including Facebook, Google and Alibaba, distributed Monday night more than $ 21 million to scientists.
Five of the seven prizes were awarded to scientists in the areas of life sciences, one in mathematics and one in fundamental physics. Each individual or group winner receives about $ 3 million – three times what we paid for the Nobel prize
The winners received their trophies last night at the Ames Research Center of NASA in Mountain. View (California). The ceremony was hosted by comedian Seth MacFarlane, creator of “Family Guy” series, and was attended by Hollywood celebrities such as actress Hillary Swank and the cast of the TV series “Silicon Valley”.
In addition to the prizes awarded to established scientists, another $ 800,000 were distributed to physicists and mathematicians career start
See the winners:.
LIFE SCIENCES
– Edward S. Boyden , because they develop optogenetics, able to control neurons with light technique
– Karl Deisseroth , also for his involvement in the development of optogenetics
– John Hardy , undiscovered mutations in a gene that cause early onset of Alzheimer’s disease
– Helen Hobbs , to discover genetic variants that alter cholesterol and lipids that influence cardiovascular health
– Svante Pääbo , by sequencing the DNA older individuals, such as the Neanderthals, and help understand human evolution
PHYSICS BASIC
– Yifang Wang Atsuto Suzuki , Koichiro Nishikawa , Arthur B. McDonald , Takaaki Kajita and 1,377 scientists they led in five different experiments with neutrinos, elementary particles. The works (some of them already Nobel) help to advance the current theory about the nature of matter
Mathematics
– Ian Agol , for his contributions to topology, the branch of mathematics that studies spaces and forms
The winners were selected by a committee of scientists awarded the first editions of Breakthrough. Details about the affiliations of scientists are in a statement released by the organization award.
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