The “Oscars of Science,” the Breakthrough Prize recognizes the world’s top scientists. Presented in the fields of Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics each prize worth $3 million.Three New Horizons in Physics and three New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes are given out to junior researchers. The founding members and sponsers of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation are– Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki.
THE WINNERS OF THE AWARD IN 2020 ARE….
SHEP DOELEMAN.
ALEX ESKIN.
JEFFREY FRIEDMAN.
F.ULRICH HARLT.
DAVID JULIUS.
ARTHUR HORWICH.
AWARD
WINNER
WORK
FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS PRIZE
COLLABORATION DIRECTOR SHEP DOELEMAN
THE EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE COLLABORATION
BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS
ALEX ESKIN
FOR REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERIES IN THE DYNAMICS AND GEOMETRY OF MODULI SPACES OF ABELIAN DIFFERENTIALS, INCLUDING THE PROOF OF THE MAGICWAND THEOREM
BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCES.
JEFFREY M. FRIEDMAN
FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW ENDOCRINE SYSTEM THROUGH WHICH ADIPOSE TISSUE SIGNALS THE BRAIN TO REGULATE THE FOOD
F. ULRICH HARTL
FOR DISCOVERING FUNCTIONS OF MOLECULAR CHAPERONES IN MEDIATING PROTEIN FOLDING AND PREVENTING PROTEIN AGGREGATION
ARTHUR L. HORWICH
FOR DISCOVERING FUNCTIONS OF MOLECULAR CHAPERONES IN MEDIATING PROTEIN FOLDING AND PREVENTING PROTEIN AGGREGATION
VIRGINIA MAN YEE LEE
FOR DISCOVERING TDP43 PROTEIN AGGREGATES IN FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA AND AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS, AND REVEALING THAT DIFFERENT FORMS OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN, INDIFFERENT CELL TYPES, UNDERLIE PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY
DAVID JULIUS
FOR DISCOVERING MOLECULES, CELLS AND MECHANISMS UNDERLYING PAIN SENSATION
VIRGINIA MAN YEE LEE.
XIE CHEN.
LUKASZ FIDKOWSKI.
MICHAEL LEVIN.
MAX METLITSKI.
JO DUNKLEY.
NEW HORIZON IN PHYSICS
XIE CHEN, LUKASZ FIDKOWSKI, MICHAEL LEVIN AND MAX. A. METLITSKI
FOR INCISIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEUNDERSTANDING OF TOPOLOGICAL STATES OF MATTER AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM
JO DUNKLEY, SAMAYA NISSANKI, KENDRICH SMITH
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL TECHNIQUES TO EXTRACT FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS FROM ASTRONOMICAL DATA
SIMON CARON HUOT AND PEDRO VIEIRA
FOR PROFOUND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
SAMAYA NISSANKI.
KENDRICH SMITH.
SIMON CARON HUOT.
PEDRO VIEIRA.
NEW HORIZON IN MATHEMATICS
TIM AUSTIN
FOR MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ERODIC THEORY, MOST NOTABLY THE SOLUTION OF THE WEAK PINSKER CONJECTURE
EMMY MURPHY
FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SYMPLECTIC AND CONTACT GEOMETRY, IN PARTICULAR THE INTRODUCTION OF NOTIONS OF LOOSE LEGENDRIAN SUBMANIFOLDS AND, OVERTWISTED CONTACT STRUCTURES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS
XINWEN ZHU
FOR WORK IN ARITHMETIC ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY INCLUDING APPLICATIONS TO THE THEORY OF SHIMURA VARIETIES AND THE RIEMAN N-HILBERT PROBLEM FOR P-ADIC VARIETIES
