Premio Breakthrough 2019: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Física Fundamental

   Charles Kane, Eugene Mele

   Física

   For new ideas about topology and symmetry in physics, leading to the prediction of a new class of materials that conduct electricity only on their surface.

2. Ciencias de la vida

   Angelika Amon

   Biología

   for determining the consequences of aneuploidy, an abnormal chromosome number resulting from chromosome mis-segregation.

3. Ciencias de la vida

   C. Frank Bennett

   Biología

   for the development of an effective antisense oligonucleotide therapy for children with the neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy.

4. Ciencias de la vida

   Xiaowei Zhuang

   Biología

   for discovering hidden structures in cells by developing super-resolution imaging – a method that transcends the fundamental spatial resolution limit of light microscopy.

5. Ciencias de la vida

   Zhijian Chen

   Biología

   for elucidating how DNA triggers immune and autoimmune responses from the interior of a cell through the discovery of the DNA-sensing enzyme cGAS.

6. Matemáticas

   Vincent Lafforgue

   Matemáticas

   for ground breaking contributions to several areas of mathematics, in particular to the Langlands program in the function field case.