Breakthrough Prize
Breakthrough Prize 2022: Winners
Recipients
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Fundamental Physics
Hidetoshi Katori, Jun Ye
For outstanding contributions to the invention and development of the optical lattice clock, which enables precision tests of the fundamental laws of nature.
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Life Sciences
Jeffery W. Kelly
for elucidating the molecular basis of neurodegenerative and cardiac transthyretin diseases, and for developing tafamidis, a drug that slows their progression.
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Life Sciences
Katalin Karikó
for engineering modified RNA technology which enabled rapid development of effective COVID-19 vaccines.
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Life Sciences
Shankar Balasubramanian
for the development of a robust and affordable method to determine DNA sequences on a massive scale, which has transformed the practice of science and medicine.
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Mathematics
Takurō Mochizuki
for monumental work leading to a breakthrough in our understanding of the theory of bundles with flat connections over algebraic varieties, including the case of irregular singularities.