Prix Breakthrough 2021 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Physique fondamentale

   Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach, Blayne Heckel

   Physique

   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. Sciences de la vie

   Catherine Dulac

   Biologie

   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. Sciences de la vie

   David Baker

   Biologie

   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. Sciences de la vie

   Richard J. Youle

   Biologie

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

5. Sciences de la vie

   Yuk Ming Dennis Lo

   Biologie

   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. Mathématiques

   Martin Hairer

   Mathématiques

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