ブレークスルー賞 2019: 勝者

受賞者

1. 基礎物理学

   Charles Kane, Eugene Mele

   物理学

   For new ideas about topology and symmetry in physics, leading to the prediction of a new class of materials that conduct electricity only on their surface.

2. ライフサイエンス

   Angelika Amon

   生物学

   for determining the consequences of aneuploidy, an abnormal chromosome number resulting from chromosome mis-segregation.

3. ライフサイエンス

   C. Frank Bennett

   生物学

   for the development of an effective antisense oligonucleotide therapy for children with the neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy.

4. ライフサイエンス

   Xiaowei Zhuang

   生物学

   for discovering hidden structures in cells by developing super-resolution imaging – a method that transcends the fundamental spatial resolution limit of light microscopy.

5. ライフサイエンス

   Zhijian Chen

   生物学

   for elucidating how DNA triggers immune and autoimmune responses from the interior of a cell through the discovery of the DNA-sensing enzyme cGAS.

6. 数学

   Vincent Lafforgue

   数学

   for ground breaking contributions to several areas of mathematics, in particular to the Langlands program in the function field case.