Other founders of the award are Google’s Sergey Brin, 23andme’s Anne Wojcicki, Alibaba’s Jack Massachusetts and his wife Cathy Zhang, Milner’s wife Julia, and Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.
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However, Reuters says that seven of the team leaders of the research projects will receive two-thirds of the $3m leaving each of the 1,370 physicists receiving approximately $700 each.
“I would love to give $3 million to each one, but we’re not there yet”, Milner said in an interview on Friday.
The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Symposium will be held at the University of California, Berkeley and begins at 10:30 a.m., PST, on November 9, 2015.
Karl Deisseroth, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, and Ed Boyden, of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute, developed optogenetics, a new technique that controls brain cells in mammals by making them respond to light signals. The awards – once referred to as “the Oscars of science”- were given to one mathematician, five researchers in life sciences and a team of over 1,300 physicists in a star-studded ceremony at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, late Sunday. John Hardy was among the discoverers of a gene that, when inherited, nearly always causes Alzheimer’s disease.
The last awardee in the Life Sciences category is Svante Pääbo, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who worked on ancient genomes and DNA that shed a light on the possible links of modern humans to Neanderthals and other long-lost relatives.
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, led by Arthur B. McDonald, Queen’s University, Canada.
The Breakthrough Prize was set up by a few of Silicon Valley’s biggest names in order to raise the profile of cutting-edge science.
Ian Agol, of the University of California, Berkeley, made unprecedented contributions to low dimensional topology.
The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration – led by Takaaki Kajita who won the Nobel Prize earlier this year for experiments that demonstrated neutrino oscillations – was one of the recipients of the physics prize.
The New Horizons in Physics Prize is awarded to promising junior researchers who have already produced important work in fundamental physics.
Many think that science and maths are boring.
Raphael Flauger, University of Texas at Austin, and Leonardo Senatore, Stanford University, for outstanding contributions to theoretical cosmology.
Rubenstein Communications This year’s Breakthrough Prize award winners. The New Horizons mathematics prize was shared by Larry Guth and André Arroja Neves for contributing to solutions in geometry.
Aside from the seven major awards, Breakthrough Prize also gave out New Horizons Prizes for individual experts, whose scientific investigations and staff are still in the initial stages of the research.
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A high school student from North Royalton, Ohio, named Ryan Chester was the youngest recipient and was awarded due to his excellent video entitled “Some Cool Ways of Looking at the Special Theory of Relativity”.
