The Breakthrough Prize was founded in 2013 by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki. In addition to the Breakthrough Prizes awarded each year, the ...

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 ...

The Breakthrough Prize celebrated recipients of its 2020 Breakthrough Prize at a glittering awards ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, broadcast live on National Geographic ...

When asked about the 50% drop in total prizes to $21.9 million this year, a Breakthrough Prize spokeperson would only tell Tech Insider "the awards fluctuate from year to year." ...

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 Junior Challenge recognized one student with a $250,000 scholarship and provided an additional $150,000 in educational prizes for the winner’s science teacher and school.

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and the NAS hope that by protecting the well-being and livelihoods of scientists and their families, Ukrainian science will be in a better position to rebuild after ...

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.