In the Life Science Breakthrough Award, * * * 5 scientists won the prize, each with a prize of $3 million. They are: Edward of MIT? s？ Boyden and Carl from Stanford University? Deisseroth of University College London, UK? Hardy, Helen from the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center? Hobbes and Svante of Max Planck Evolutionary Anthropology? Pbo. Their research fields include optogenetics's disease, Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular and liver diseases and ancient DNA sequencing.
Basic Physics Breakthrough Award: * * Five teams won the prize, and three million dollars will be divided equally. They are: Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment led by Wang, and Atsuto? Kamran Cooperation Group led by Suzuki is led by Kōichirō Genba? K2K led by Nishikawa? And T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, by Arthur? B? The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory led by MacDonald is led by Takasaki? Kajita and Yoichiro? Super Kamoka Cooperation Group led by Suzuki.
The Mathematical Breakthrough Award was awarded to Ian of the University of California, Berkeley. Agol, with a prize of $3 million, recognizes his contribution to low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory.
The New Horizon Award is awarded to potential young researchers, and the winner will receive a prize of $654.38 million. 20 16 physics new vision award was awarded to three groups of scientists: b? Andre? Bernevig, Liang from MIT? Fu and Liang Xiaoliang from Stanford University? Qi, in recognition of their contributions in condensed matter physics; Raphael from the University of Texas at Austin? Flauger and Leonardo from Stanford University? Senators in recognition of their contributions to theoretical cosmology; Yuji from the University of Tokyo, Japan? Li Chuan, in recognition of his contribution to supersymmetric quantum field theory.
The 20 16 new vision award for mathematics was awarded to three groups of scientists: Larry of MIT? Guth, in recognition of his contributions to symplectic geometry, Riemannian geometry, harmonic analysis and combinatorial geometry; Andre from Imperial College London, London? Arroja？ Neves, in recognition of his contributions to scalar curvature, geometric flow and Wilmore conjecture; The third group of new vision awards went to Peter? Schultz was rejected by him.
The 20 16 Youth Challenge Breakthrough Award was awarded to Ryan of North Royalton High School in Ohio, USA. Chester won an award for making a science video to help better understand the theory of relativity, and he will receive a $250,000 education scholarship.
The "scientific breakthrough award" was won by Russian billionaire Yuri? Milner was founded with other entrepreneurs. His co-founders include former CEO of American Genentech Company? Art? Levinson and Sergey, one of the founders of Google? Brin, Annie, founder of 23andMe? Wojcicki, Facebook founder Mark? Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla? Chen and Jack Ma, founder of China Alibaba Group.
It is reported that the award aims to reward scientists who have made important achievements in the field of life sciences, provide them with more freedom and opportunities, and help them achieve greater achievements. The winners of each year will join the selection committee and participate in the selection of the next winners.
Anyone can nominate the winning candidate online. There is no age limit for candidates, and there is no limit on the number of winners of each award and the number of individual winners.
So far, some scientists are ambivalent about the establishment of this award. On the one hand, I am very happy to get attention and recognition, on the other hand, I am not sure whether the grand prize is the best way to promote scientific research. However, some physics prize winners in previous years set up funds with their bonuses to support postdoctoral, doctoral and science teachers.