Breakthrough Prize
Breakthrough Prize 2023: Winners
Recipients
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Fundamental Physics
Charles H. Bennett, David Deutsch, Gilles Brassard, Peter W. Shor
For foundational work in the field of quantum information.
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Life Sciences
Clifford P. Brangwynne
for discovering a fundamental mechanism of cellular organization mediated by phase separation of proteins and RNA into membraneless liquid droplets.
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Life Sciences
Demis Hassabis
for developing a deep learning AI method that rapidly and accurately predicts the three-dimensional structure of proteins from their amino acid sequence..
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Life Sciences
Emmanuel Mignot
for discovering that narcolepsy is caused by the loss of a small population of brain cells that make a wake-promoting substance, paving the way for the development of new treatments for sleep disorders..
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Mathematics
Daniel Spielman
for breakthrough contributions to theoretical computer science and mathematics, including to spectral graph theory, the Kadison-Singer problem, numerical linear algebra, optimization, and coding theory.