Breakthrough Prize
Breakthrough Prize 2020: Winners
Recipients
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Fundamental Physics
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
For the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by means of an Earth-sized alliance of telescopes.
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Life Sciences
Arthur L. Horwich, Franz-Ulrich Hartl
for discovering functions of molecular chaperones in mediating protein folding and preventing protein aggregation.
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Life Sciences
David Julius
for discovering molecules, cells, and mechanisms underlying pain sensation.
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Life Sciences
Jeffrey M. Friedman
for the discovery of a new endocrine system through which adipose tissue signals the brain to regulate food intake.
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Life Sciences
Virginia Man-Yee Lee
for discovering TDP43 protein aggregates in frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and revealing that different forms of alpha-synuclein, in different cell types, underlie Parkinson's disease and Multiple System Atrophy.
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Mathematics
Alex Eskin, Maryam Mirzakhani
for revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the 'magic wand theorem'.