Premio Breakthrough 2020: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Física Fundamental

   The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

   Física

   For the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by means of an Earth-sized alliance of telescopes.

2. Ciencias de la vida

   Arthur L. Horwich, Franz-Ulrich Hartl

   Biología

   for discovering functions of molecular chaperones in mediating protein folding and preventing protein aggregation.

3. Ciencias de la vida

   David Julius

   Biología

   for discovering molecules, cells, and mechanisms underlying pain sensation.

4. Ciencias de la vida

   Jeffrey M. Friedman

   Biología

   for the discovery of a new endocrine system through which adipose tissue signals the brain to regulate food intake.

5. Ciencias de la vida

   Virginia Man-Yee Lee

   Biología

   for discovering TDP43 protein aggregates in frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and revealing that different forms of alpha-synuclein, in different cell types, underlie Parkinson's disease and Multiple System Atrophy.

6. Matemáticas

   Alex Eskin, Maryam Mirzakhani

   Matemáticas

   for revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the 'magic wand theorem'.