Prix Breakthrough 2020 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Physique fondamentale

   The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

   Physique

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

2. Sciences de la vie

   Arthur L. Horwich, Franz-Ulrich Hartl

   Biologie

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

3. Sciences de la vie

   David Julius

   Biologie

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

4. Sciences de la vie

   Jeffrey M. Friedman

   Biologie

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

5. Sciences de la vie

   Virginia Man-Yee Lee

   Biologie

   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. Mathématiques

   Alex Eskin, Maryam Mirzakhani

   Mathématiques

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