Premio Breakthrough 2021: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Física Fundamental

   Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach, Blayne Heckel

   Física

   For precision fundamental measurements that test our understanding of gravity, probe the nature of dark energy, and establish limits on couplings to dark matter.

2. Ciencias de la vida

   Catherine Dulac

   Biología

   for deconstructing the complex behavior of parenting to the level of cell-types and their wiring, and demonstrating that the neural circuits governing both male and female-specific parenting behaviors are present in both sexes.

3. Ciencias de la vida

   David Baker

   Biología

   for developing technology that allowed the design of proteins never seen before in nature, including novel proteins that have the potential for therapeutic intervention in human diseases.

4. Ciencias de la vida

   Richard J. Youle

   Biología

   for elucidating a quality control pathway that clears damaged mitochondria and thereby protects against Parkinson's Disease.

5. Ciencias de la vida

   Yuk Ming Dennis Lo

   Biología

   for discovering that fetal DNA is present in maternal blood and can be used for the prenatal testing of trisomy 21 and other genetic disorders

6. Matemáticas

   Martin Hairer

   Matemáticas

   for transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis, particularly the theory of regularity structures in stochastic partial differential equations.