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Breakthrough Prize laureates (from top left to right): Terence Tao, Huda Zoghbi, Shep Doeleman, Svante Pääbo, Jennifer Doudna, Kip Thorne, Joanne Chory, Ed Boyden and Fabiola Gianotti.

The Breakthrough Prize program was founded in 2012 with support from such tech luminaries as Google co-founder Sergei Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki (23andMe); Russian entrepreneur-investor Yuri ...

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: The three winners, sharing the $3 million prize are, Joseph Polchinski from the University of California, Santa Barbara; Andrew Strominger from Harvard ...

The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics honors the world’s best mathematicians who have contributed to major advances in the field. The joint winners of the $3 million prize, are: Christopher Hacon ...

Breakthrough Prize Announces Celebrity and Special Guests Paying Tribute To Distinguished Scientists by A.A. Cristi - November 21, 2017The Breakthrough Prize will honor top achievements in the ...

Each of the Breakthrough Prizes is worth $3 million, which exceeds the $1.1 million cash value of the longer-running Nobel Prize. Each New Horizon Prize is worth $100,000.