Premio Breakthrough 2026: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Física Fundamental

   Muon g−2 collaboration CERN, Muon g−2 collaboration Brookhaven, Muon g−2 collaboration Fermilab

   Física

   For multi-decade, groundbreaking contributions to the measurement of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment, pushing the boundaries of experimental precision and igniting a new era in the quest for physics beyond the Standard Model.

2. Ciencias de la vida

   Albert Maguire, Jean Bennett, Katherine A. High

   Biología

   For developing a therapy for inherited retinal degeneration that became the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease.

3. Ciencias de la vida

   Bryan Traynor, Rosa Rademakers

   Biología

   For the discovery of the most common genetic cause of ALS and frontotemporal dementia which charted the path for new mechanistic studies of these diseases.

4. Ciencias de la vida

   Stuart H. Orkin, Swee Lay Thein

   Biología

   For elucidating the mechanism driving the switch from fetal to adult hemoglobin and validating it as a therapeutic target for sickle-cell disease and beta-thalassemia.

5. Matemáticas

   Frank Merle

   Matemáticas

   for breakthroughs in nonlinear evolution equations, with regards to their stability, singularity formation, or resolution into solitons.