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The Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by the Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of scientific advances. [1] [2] The awards are part of several "Breakthrough" initiatives founded and funded by Yuri Milner and his wife Julia Milner, along with Breakthrough Initiatives and Breakthrough Junior Challenge.
The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a scientific award, funded by internet entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan of Facebook; Sergey Brin of Google; entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner; and Anne Wojcicki, one of the founders of the genetics company 23andMe.
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board.Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, [1] it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist Yuri Milner.
The prize is specifically "For developing technology that allowed the design of proteins never seen before in nature, including novel proteins that have the potential for therapeutic intervention ...
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial intelligence to “crack the ... The pair have already won the 2023 Lasker and the Breakthrough prizes.
The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics is an annual award of the Breakthrough Prize series announced in 2013. It is funded by Yuri Milner [ 1 ] and Mark Zuckerberg and others. [ 2 ] The annual award comes with a cash gift of $3 million.
The Prize is sometimes called “the Oscars of Science,” and celebrates achievements in research and offers $15 million in prizes annually, according to their website. Robert wore a gray suit ...
Breakthrough Initiatives is a science-based program founded in 2015 and funded by Julia and Yuri Milner, [1] also of Breakthrough Prize, to search for extraterrestrial intelligence over a span of at least 10 years. The program is divided into multiple projects.