ブレークスルー賞 2020: 勝者

受賞者

1. 基礎物理学

   The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

   物理学

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

2. ライフサイエンス

   Arthur L. Horwich, Franz-Ulrich Hartl

   生物学

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

3. ライフサイエンス

   David Julius

   生物学

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

4. ライフサイエンス

   Jeffrey M. Friedman

   生物学

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

5. ライフサイエンス

   Virginia Man-Yee Lee

   生物学

   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. 数学

   Alex Eskin, Maryam Mirzakhani

   数学

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