Breakthrough Prize
Breakthrough Prize 2021: Winners
Recipients
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Fundamental Physics
Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach, Blayne Heckel
For precision fundamental measurements that test our understanding of gravity, probe the nature of dark energy, and establish limits on couplings to dark matter.
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Life Sciences
Catherine Dulac
for deconstructing the complex behavior of parenting to the level of cell-types and their wiring, and demonstrating that the neural circuits governing both male and female-specific parenting behaviors are present in both sexes.
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Life Sciences
David Baker
for developing technology that allowed the design of proteins never seen before in nature, including novel proteins that have the potential for therapeutic intervention in human diseases.
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Life Sciences
Richard J. Youle
for elucidating a quality control pathway that clears damaged mitochondria and thereby protects against Parkinson's Disease.
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Life Sciences
Yuk Ming Dennis Lo
for discovering that fetal DNA is present in maternal blood and can be used for the prenatal testing of trisomy 21 and other genetic disorders
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Mathematics
Martin Hairer
for transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis, particularly the theory of regularity structures in stochastic partial differential equations.