Premio Breakthrough 2015: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Física Fundamental

   Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess

   Física

   For the most unexpected discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, rather than slowing as had been long assumed.

2. Ciencias de la vida

   Alim-Louis Benabid

   Biología

   for the discovery and pioneering work on the development of high-frequency deep brain stimulation (DBS), which has revolutionized the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

3. Ciencias de la vida

   C. David Allis

   Biología

   for the discovery of covalent modifications of histone proteins and their critical roles in the regulation of gene expression and chromatin organization, advancing the understanding of diseases ranging from birth defects to cancer.

4. Ciencias de la vida

   Jennifer A. Doudna

   Biología

   for harnessing an ancient mechanism of bacterial immunity into a powerful and general technology for editing genomes, with wide-ranging implications across biology and medicine.

5. Ciencias de la vida

   Victor Ambros

   Biología

   for the discovery of a new world of genetic regulation by microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that inhibit translation or destabilize complementary mRNA targets.

6. Matemáticas

   Jacob Lurie

   Matemáticas

   for his work on the foundations of higher category theory and derived algebraic geometry; for the classification of fully extended topological quantum field theories; and for providing a moduli-theoretic interpretation of elliptic cohomology.

7. Matemáticas

   Maxim Kontsevich

   Matemáticas

   for work making a deep impact in a vast variety of mathematical disciplines, including algebraic geometry, deformation theory, symplectic topology, homological algebra and dynamical systems.

8. Matemáticas

   Richard Taylor

   Matemáticas

   for numerous breakthrough results in the theory of automorphic forms, including the Taniyama–Weil conjecture, the local Langlands conjecture for general linear groups, and the Sato–Tate conjecture.

9. Matemáticas

   Simon Donaldson

   Matemáticas

   for the new revolutionary invariants of 4-dimensional manifolds and for the study of the relation between stability in algebraic geometry and in global differential geometry, both for bundles and for Fano varieties.

10. Matemáticas

    Terence Tao

    Matemáticas

    for numerous breakthrough contributions to harmonic analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations and analytic number theory.