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2024 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony
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“Change the world” is a phrase we hear a lot. But Demis Hassabis and John Jumper
@DeepMind
did. AlphaFold has solved the protein structure prediction problem, one of the central challenges in biology and medicine. They win the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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Long before quantum computers, there were thinkers with the imagination to lay the conceptual foundation. Quantum pioneers Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch, Peter Shor win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
@MIT
@UniofOxford
@UMontreal
@IBMResearch
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Congratulations to Maggie Miller
@Stanford
- a Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize winner for work on fibered ribbon knots and surfaces in 4-dimensional manifolds.
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Carl June and Michel Sadelain created CAR T immunotherapy, modifying the body's T cells to fight cancer. For this advance they are awarded 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
@MSKCancerCenter
@Penn
@PennMedicine
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Congrats to Ahmed Almheiri, Netta Engelhardt, Henry Maxfield, Geoff Penington: New Horizons in Physics Prize winners “for calculating the quantum information content of a black hole and its radiation.”
@the_IAS
@MIT
@ucsantabarbara
@UCBerkeley
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#HBD
Xiaowei Zhuang, Breakthrough Prize laureate who has helped create technologies like STORM & MERFISH that push past the diffraction limit of light to reveal images of proteins and other molecular actors in the cell. Learn more:
Photo Brigitte Lacombe
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We’re pleased to announce that the
@ehtelescope
collaboration has won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Congratulations to the entire team, across 60 institutions and 20 countries.
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Congratulations to Thomas Gasser, Ellen Sidransky and Andrew Singleton, who win the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering key genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease.
@NIHAging
@NIH
@genome_gov
@DZNE_en
@uni_tue
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A Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to Steven Weinberg
@UTAustin
, a key architect of the Standard Model, and a hugely influential educator, communicator and advocate of science for well over half a century.
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Life science is an open frontier. Clifford Brangwynne and Anthony Hyman discovered an entirely new system of cellular organization via membraneless liquid drops. Congratulations to them on winning the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
@Princeton
@HHMINEWS
@mpicbg
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The big reveal! Thousands of students across the planet made brilliant science videos for this year’s Breakthrough Junior Challenge. We surprised the winner in class with the life-changing news.
@salkhanacademy
@StationCDRKelly
@khanacademy
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Congratulations to Mayuko Yamashita on winning the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for work on mathematical physics and index theory.
@KyotoU_News
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Congratulations to John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov on winning the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their profound contributions to statistical physics and quantum field theories.
@stonybrooku
@UniofOxford
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Congratulations to Laura M. Pérez, Paola Pinilla, Nienke van der Marel and Til Birnstiel on the New Horizons in Physics Prize, awarded for their work on young circumstellar disks.
@ucl
@LMU_Muenchen
@udechile
@UniLeidenNews
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Congratulations to Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox and Marko Simonović. They win the New Horizons in Physics Prize for their work on the large-scale structure of the cosmos.
@SimonsFdn
@MIT
@UNI_FIRENZE
@Columbia
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The 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics goes to Hidetoshi Katori and Jun Ye for producing quantum clocks so accurate they would lose less than a second in 15 billion years, with broad science applications.
@NIST
@CUBoulder
@RIKEN_JP
@UTokyo_News
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Hannes Bernien, Manuel Endres, Adam Kaufman - receive the New Horizons Prize for developing optical tweezer arrays to realize control of atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, molecular physics.
@UChicago
@Caltech
@JILAscience
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Young science lovers - tell us a story! Watch
@karliekloss
@khanacademy
@BillNye
astronauts
@StationCDRKelly
+
@Astro_Cady
&
@YouTube
stars
@AsapSCIENCE
@thephysicsgirl
invite YOU to take the 2020
#breakthroughjuniorchallenge
!
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Jinyoung Park
@Stanford
is awarded a Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for contributions to the resolution of several major conjectures on thresholds and selector processes.
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Congrats to our new Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences laureates: Jeffrey M. Friedman, F. Ulrich Hartl, Arthur L. Horwich, David Julius and Virginia Man-Yee Lee. More at
@Penn
@MPI_Biochem
@RockefellerUniv
@HHMINEWS
@Yale
@UCSF
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Science is humanity’s superpower, and our 2022 laureates – Jeffery Kelly, Katalin Karikó + Drew Weissman, Shankar Balasubramanian + David Klenerman + Pascal Mayer, Hidetoshi Katori + Jun Ye, and Takuro Mochizuki – are real world superheroes.
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Congrats to Alessandra Corsi
@TexasTech
Gregg Hallinan + Mansi M. Kasliwal
@Caltech
+
Raffaella Margutti
@UCBerkeley
for leadership in electromagnetic observations of gravitational waves, inc. 1st observed collision of neutron stars - New Horizons Prize.
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Abstract mathematics powers the real world. Daniel Spielman’s algorithms are used for computing, signal processing, design of clinical trials and many more applications. Congratulations to him for winning the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
@Yale
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James Maynard receives the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for multiple contributions to analytic number theory, and in particular to the distribution of prime numbers.
@UniofOxford
@the_IAS
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Congratulations to Vera Traub
@UniBonn
for receiving the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for advances in approximation results in classical combinatorial optimization problems, including the traveling salesman problem and network design.
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Shankar Balasubramanian received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences award - along with David Klenerman and Pascal Mayer - for work revolutionizing DNA sequencing. Watch the full presentation from the Breakthrough Prize ceremony at .
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Dominic Else, Vedika Khemani, Haruki Watanabe, Norman Yao awarded New Horizons Prize for pioneering theoretical work formulating novel phases of non-equilibrium quantum matter, including time crystals.
@Harvard
@Stanford
@UTokyo_News_en
@UCBerkeley
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The New Horizons in Physics Prize is awarded to Anna Grassellino
@Fermilab
- for the discovery of major performance enhancements to niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavities, with applications ranging from accelerator physics to quantum devices.
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Shankar Balasubramanian, David Klenerman and Pascal Mayer receive a 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for inventing next generation sequencing technologies – a revolution for biology, ecology and medicine.
@Cambridge_Uni
@alphanosos
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Congratulations to Ronen Eldan for winning the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for the creation of the stochastic localization method, leading to progress in open problems in high-dimensional geometry and probability.
@WeizmannScience
@MSFTResearch
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Congratulations to Nina Holden - inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize laureate "for work in random geometry, particularly on Liouville Quantum Gravity as a scaling limit of random triangulations."
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Sunday night! Live
@NatGeoChannel
- Pharrell, Russell Crowe, Hilary Swank, special guests: .
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Congratulations to David Simmons-Duffin
@Caltech
, awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize for the development of analytical and numerical techniques to study conformal field theories.
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Breakthrough Listen is training its ears on ‘Oumuamua, the interstellar voyager speeding through the solar more at .
Artist impression:
@ESO
/M. Kornmesser
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Kang-Kuen Ni, Hannes Pichler, Jeff Thompson - the New Horizons Prize for developing optical tweezer arrays to realize control of atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, molecular physics.
@Harvard
@uniinnsbruck
@Princeton
@oeaw
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Is there life on our neighboring planet of Venus? Intriguing new evidence raises the possibility. Today Breakthrough Initiatives launches a research study, led by
@MIT
’s
@ProfSaraSeager
, to investigate.
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Congratulations to Tracy Slatyer
@MIT
- 2021 New Horizons in Physics laureate "for major contributions to particle astrophysics, from models of dark matter to the discovery of the 'Fermi Bubbles.'"
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Congratulations to Ana Caraiani - the New Horizons Prize for transformative contributions to the Langlands program, and for work on the Hodge-Tate period map for Shimura varieties and its applications.
@UniBonn
@imperialcollege
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Congrats to
@Pale_red_dot
+
@ESO
for huge discovery of Earth-size planet + target for
#Starshot
at
#ProximaCentauri
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Jinyoung Park followed a unique path to become a mathematician — her contributions to the resolution of several major conjectures on thresholds and selector processes earned her the 2023 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony.
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Nominations are now being taken for the inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, a $50,000 award to be presented to women mathematicians earning PhDs in the previous 2 years - to honor the legacy of the late Fields Medalist +
@Stanford
professor.
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Congratulations to 2022 New Horizons in Mathematics laureates Aaron Brown
@NorthwesternU
and Sebastian Hurtado Salazar
@UChicago
, for contributions to the proof of Zimmer’s conjecture.
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"Plants are the foundation of all life on earth.” Happy Birthday to
@brkthroughprize
laureate Joanne Chory
@salkinstitute
@HHMINEWS
, whose simple but powerful experiments revealed how plants use sunlight to develop. Learn more at .
Photo Brigitte Lacombe
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3 days until the
#breakthroughprize
show on
@Discovery
! Christina Aguilera helps honor our great scientists.
@xtina
http://t.co/Q2lvoSRnlc
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This is a really clear explanation from
@seanmcarroll
of how to think about the meaning of probability under different interpretations of quantum mechanics.
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Narcolepsy is a serious neurodegenerative disease. Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa’s labs discovered its cause, and so revealed a key cellular mechanism regulating sleep and wakefulness. They share the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
@StanfordMed
@UofTsukuba
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We are looking forward to announcing 25 new laureates tomorrow at 8:00 am EDT (Sept. 9), including Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences, Mathematics, Fundamental Physics + New Horizons Prizes in Physics and Mathematics and the winners of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize.
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Congratulations to the brilliant new Breakthrough Prize, New Horizons Prize and inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize laureates:
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Congratulations to all 25 of this year’s prize laureates - they have discovered fundamental truths that promise new technologies and treatments, and a brighter future for us all.
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On 12/3, join us for the 6th annual Breakthrough Prize - honoring the world's greatest scientists, with host Morgan Freeman,
@RealRonHoward
, Mila Kunis,
@aplusk
,
@kerrywashington
,
@wizkhalifa
,
@JohnCUrschel
. Live on
@NatGeo
,
@facebook
,
@YouTube
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Frank Drake invented SETI as a scientific field. He did not live to see his great question answered, but he inspired humanity to ask it. He was a founding father of the Breakthrough Listen program and will continue to be its guiding light in the future.
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Congratulations to Eric Adelberger, Jens Gundlach and Blayne Heckel
@UW
for 3 decades of ingenious and exquisitely precise experiments on gravity and other phenomena - and winners of this year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Congratulations to Sarah Peluse - 2022 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize laureate for contributions to arithmetic combinatorics and analytic number theory, particularly with regards to polynomial patterns in dense sets.
@the_IAS
@Princeton
@Stanford
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Join us in celebrating the superstars of science with presenters
@tyrabanks
@DrewBarrymore
@levarburton
@JKCorden
@TherealTaraji
@AllisonBJanney
@karliekloss
@AdrianaLima
@EdwardNorton
LIVE
@NatGeoChannel
+ online at
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Congrats Suchitra Sebastian, New Horizons in Physics Prize laureate, for high precision electronic and magnetic measurements that have profoundly changed our understanding of high temperature superconductors and unconventional insulators.
@Cambridge_Uni
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The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announces a $3 million donation in support of scientists forced to flee Ukraine. Read full text:
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Today we announce a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, for their discovery of supergravity. Congratulations to all three!
@CERN
@MIT
@stonybrooku
More: .
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Science is humanity’s superpower! If you are 13-18 take the for a chance to win a $250k scholarship. See 3 past winners have their lives changed in an instant + a special message from actress/neuroscientist Mayim Bialik
@missmayim
.
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Breakthrough Listen
@BerkeleySETI
&
@SETIInstitute
are pleased to announce they'll co-host
#GRCon20
. We're thrilled to work with
@gnuradio
community to bring together cutting edge open-source radio & humanity's most profound use of radio tech: the search for life on other worlds.
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Radio silence from 'Oumuamua:
@BerkeleySETI
Breakthrough Listen team completes analysis of observations from
@GrnBnkTelescope
. Billions of radio channels scanned, over an entire rotation of the object. Transmitters 10x fainter than a cellphone ruled out: .
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Congrats to new Breakout Award winners Laura Duvall
@RockefellerUniv
, Gina Lee
@WeillCornell
,
@elhamazizi
@sloan_kettering
+
@brkthroughprize
winners Cori Bargmann, Lewis Cantley, Charles Sawyers + institutions for launching this postdoc prize. More info: .
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Super-precise clock tech wins $3 million physics Breakthrough Prize
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Breakthrough Listen releases largest ever search for extraterrestrial intelligence dataset - 1 petabyte of data - into the public archive. Also published are results from over 1000 stars searched at billions of radio frequencies.
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Meet Frank Bennett and Adrian Krainer, winners of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their development of a new gene therapy that's had spectacular results on the leading genetic cause of infant death:
@CSHL
@ionispharma
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#StarChips
in space! Prototypes of revolutionary space-probe-on-a-chip reach orbit, in first milestone for
#Starshot
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Congratulations to Hannah Larson on winning the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for work on Brill-Noether theory and the geometry of the moduli space of curves.
@UCBerkeley
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We are honored to announce Jocelyn Bell Burnell will receive a $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize at our annual ceremony on 11/4, for contributions to the discovery of pulsars + a lifetime of inspiring leadership: +
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Breakthrough Listen will launch major new survey of the Milky Way disk and bulge, following upgrades to the Parkes Radio Telescope by
@BerkeleySETI
. Read more at . Photo:
@CSIROnews
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Carl Sagan, born on November 9, 1934 in Brooklyn, NY. Also known as “the astronomer of the people,” Sagan was an astronomer, astrophysicist, author. He made lasting contributions in popularizing science to the general public. He inspires people to this day.
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Nice cigar, but no Tripods. Not yet anyway. Breakthrough Listen’s first analysis of ‘Oumuamua, the cigar-shaped object speeding through the solar system, finds no evidence of intelligent life. A subset of the data is now available for public inspection. .
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Congratulations to Jack Thorne
@Cambridge_Uni
-awarded a 2022 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize.
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Congratulations to Simon Brendle
@Columbia
, who wins the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his transformative contributions to differential geometry.
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Thank you to all who watched the
@brkthroughprize
ceremony 12/3 - on
@NatGeoChannel
@YouTube
@facebook
. You play an important part in honoring scientists transforming our world, while helping to foster a culture based on knowledge, reason. Watch replay at
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences laureate Angelika Amon, who was admired and beloved by her students and colleagues worldwide. “Making a discovery is the best feeling in the world. It’s like Christmas when you were five."
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Thank you
@LaurenRidloff
and Chris Pine for telling the story of mRNA vaccines and their unstoppable inventors, and honoring breakthrough science that is changing our world. Watch the segment here ➡️
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Breakthrough Listen was observing the position of a previously detected fast radio burst when they saw something new
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Are you a student 13-18 who loves science? You can submit a video that explains a challenging concept in math, life sciences or physics. The winner gets a $250,000 scholarship, a $100,000 lab for your school and a $50,000 teacher award. Here's a guide: .
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Breakthrough
#Starshot
founder Yuri Milner on
@NASA
@chandraxray
survey of
#AlphaCentauri
: "It's welcome news that potential life in the Alpha Centauri system is not ruled out by the x-ray environment."
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The 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics goes to Alex Eskin of
@UChicago
, for work including the influential "magic wand” theorem developed in collaboration with the late Maryam Mirzakhani.
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Happy Birthday Rai Weiss, a driving force behind the development of
@LIGO
for over 50 years - leading to the detection of gravitational waves in 2015. Learn more at .
Photo by Brigitte Lacombe
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Join us in celebrating the superstars of science with presenters
@tyrabanks
@DrewBarrymore
@levarburton
@JKCorden
@TherealTaraji
@AllisonBJanney
@karliekloss
@AdrianaLima
@EdwardNorton
LIVE
@NatGeoChannel
+ online at
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Artificial intelligence seeks extraterrestrial intelligence. Breakthrough Listen develops a new machine learning system to search for potential signals from other civilizations.
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Breakthrough Listen to date has largely focused on the search for "life as we know it" - including Earthlike planets around Sunlike stars such as Kepler 160. Now we're announcing an expanded approach, targeting "one of everything" in the Universe:
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Excited to have
@PierceBrosnan
hosting the Breakthrough Prize ceremony! Watch one of our classiest actors introduce you to some truly top-class scientists. Live 11/4 on
@NatGeoChannel
@facebook
@YouTube
.
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Congratulations to Bhargav Bhatt
@UMich
- 2021 New Horizons in Mathematics laureate “for outstanding work in commutative algebra and arithmetic algebraic geometry, particularly on the development of p-adic cohomology theories.
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Looking forward to announcing 24 new laureates tomorrow at 9:00 am EDT (Sept. 10), including Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences, Mathematics, Fundamental Physics + New Horizons Prizes in Physics and Mathematics and inaugural winners of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize.
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Jacob Tsimerman was awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for outstanding work in analytic number theory and arithmetic geometry, including breakthroughs on the André-Oort and Griffiths conjectures.
@UofT
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Congratulations to Sabine Hadida, Paul Negulescu and Fredrick Van Goor
@VertexPharma
, who developed effective drug treatments for cystic fibrosis. They win the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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