Prix Breakthrough 2015 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Physique fondamentale

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

   Physique

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

2. Sciences de la vie

   Alim-Louis Benabid

   Biologie

   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. Sciences de la vie

   C. David Allis

   Biologie

   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. Sciences de la vie

   Jennifer A. Doudna

   Biologie

   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. Sciences de la vie

   Victor Ambros

   Biologie

   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. Mathématiques

   Jacob Lurie

   Mathématiques

   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. Mathématiques

   Maxim Kontsevich

   Mathématiques

   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. Mathématiques

   Richard Taylor

   Mathématiques

   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. Mathématiques

   Simon Donaldson

   Mathématiques

   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. Mathématiques

    Terence Tao

    Mathématiques

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