ブレークスルー賞 2021: 勝者

受賞者

1. 基礎物理学

   Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach, Blayne Heckel

   物理学

   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. ライフサイエンス

   Catherine Dulac

   生物学

   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. ライフサイエンス

   David Baker

   生物学

   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. ライフサイエンス

   Richard J. Youle

   生物学

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

5. ライフサイエンス

   Yuk Ming Dennis Lo

   生物学

   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. 数学

   Martin Hairer

   数学

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