科学第一巨奖＂突破奖＂颁2200万两位中国人获奖-药时代-八卦帝

科学第一巨奖＂突破奖＂颁2200万两位中国人获奖

药时代欧美男星 2017-12-06 07:08:20 337

创作不易，用心坚持，欢迎请BaGua喝几杯爱心咖啡！

美国当地时间12月3日16时30分许，位于旧金山的美国国家航空航天局（NASA）Ames研究中心铺上了红毯，迎接科学领域第一巨奖——“突破奖”的获奖者们。

　　突破大奖共颁发2200万美元奖金，其中，旨在表彰生命科学、基础物理及数学领域最杰出的成就的“突破奖”单项奖金为300万美元，约是诺贝尔奖单项奖金的三倍（900万瑞士克朗，约合107.5万美元）。

　　今年，5名生命科学家各自获得“生命科学突破奖”，奖金300万美元。5名“基础物理突破奖”获得者共享300万美元，2名“数学突破奖”获得者分享300万美元。此外，共有3名青年物理学家各自获得“新视野奖”，4名青年数学家共享3个“新视野奖”，其中包括两名中国数学家恽之玮和张伟，他们均毕业于北京大学，也都是80后。最后，还有1名“突破挑战奖”得主获得40万美元奖金。

两名中国青年数学家恽之玮和张伟获得本届“新视野奖”。

　　其中，颁奖典礼之前的走红毯环节，是主办方为了让科学家如摇滚明星一般享受镁光灯。颁奖环节也会邀请明星和科学家共同颁奖。今年颁奖仪式将由奥斯卡获奖男演员摩根·弗里曼主持。嘻哈音乐家威茨·哈里发、大提琴演奏家、演员欧阳娜娜、刘强东的太太章泽天、美国游泳奥运冠军凯蒂·莱德基、美国橄榄球明星约翰·尤索等社会名流也出现在红毯上。

章泽天

　　本届基础物理突破奖得主查尔斯.L.班尼特（Charles L. Bennett）对澎湃新闻表示，走在红毯上并不是他“典型”的生活，但他觉得这种方式棒极了，能让科学家们得到应有的关注度。在多年探索宇宙的过程中，他最大的感悟是“宇宙很大，我们生活的星球真小”，他希望能唤起更多人关注宇宙，认识到人类的共同命运。

　　本届数学“新视野奖”得主阿伦·纳博（Aaron Naber）同样对澎湃新闻说道：“这对我来说是独一无二的一天，我们数学家平时可不这样生活。”当被问及他将如何处理10万美元奖金，纳博脱口而出：“还房贷啊！我有三个孩子呢。”

　　有“科学界奥斯卡”之称的科学突破奖自2012年开始颁发，以奖励在生命科学、数学和基础物理学领域做出杰出贡献的科学家。单项奖金300万美元，是科学界第一巨奖。马化腾与谷歌创始人之一谢尔盖·布林、俄罗斯富翁尤里·米尔纳（DST基金创始人）及夫人茱莉亚·米尔纳、Facebook创始人马克·扎克伯格及夫人普莉希拉·陈和23andMe创始人安妮·沃希斯基共同捐赠该奖项。

　　获奖名单：

　　五个价值300万美元的生命科学突破奖主要是奖励研究生命系统和延长人类生命方面的革命性进步。他们分别是：

　　乔安妮·乔瑞（Joanne Chory），来自沙克生物学研究所、哈佛休夫医学研究所

　　获奖理由：发现了植物从光照和阴影中提取信息进行光合作用的一种分子机制，这种新机制可以修改植物枝叶生长的过程。

　　唐·克利夫兰（Don W. Cleveland），来自加州大学圣迭戈分校路德维希癌症研究所

　　获奖理由：阐述了遗传性肌萎缩性侧索硬化症（ALS）的分子发病机制，包括神经退行性变中神经胶质细胞的作用，以及建立了ALS和亨廷顿疾病的反义寡核苷酸疗法动物模型。

　　森和俊（Kazutoshi Mori），来自东京大学

　　奖励理由：阐明了未折叠的蛋白质反应，细胞质量控制系统，并阐述了细胞纠正措施的方法。

　　金·内史密斯（Kim Nasmyth），来自牛津大学

　　获奖理由：阐明了细胞分裂过程中，重复染色体危险分离的复杂机制，从而防止癌症等遗传疾病。

　　彼得·沃特（Peter Walter），来自加州大学旧金山分校

　　获奖理由同样是：阐明了未折叠的蛋白质反应，细胞质量控制系统，并阐述了细胞纠正措施的方法。

　　基础物理突破的300万美元奖金将由27名成员组成的WMAP实验团队共享，其中包括5位获奖团队领导。

　　他们分别是：查尔斯.L.班尼特（Charles L. Bennett），来自约翰霍普金斯大学；加里·欣肖（Gary Hinshaw），来自不列颠哥伦比亚大学；诺曼·雅罗西克（Norman Jarosik ），来自普林斯顿大学；里曼·佩奇（Lyman Page Jr），来自普林斯顿大学；大卫·斯珀格尔（David N. Spergel）来自普林斯顿大学。

　　获奖理由是,该团队绘制了早期宇宙的详细地图，大大提高了我们对宇宙演化以及对星系形成起伏波动的认识。

　　数学突破奖由两名获奖者共享，分别：

　　克里斯朵夫·哈克（Christopher Hacon ），来自犹他大学

　　詹姆斯·迈克凯南（James McKernan），来自加州大学圣迭戈分校

—— 欢迎欣赏新闻稿！ ——

BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE – “THE OSCARS OF SCIENCE” – CELEBRATES TOP ACHIEVEMENTS IN PHYSICS, LIFE SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS, AWARDS $22 MILLION IN PRIZES AT GALA TELEVISED CEREMONY IN SILICON VALLEY

2018 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences Awarded to Joanne Chory, Don W. Cleveland, Kazutoshi Mori, Kim Nasmyth, and Peter Walter.

2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Charles L. Bennett, Gary Hinshaw, Norman Jarosik, Lyman Page Jr., David N. Spergel, and the WMAP Science Team.

2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics Awarded to Christopher Hacon and James McKernan.

New Horizons in Physics Prizes Awarded to Christopher Hirata, Douglas Stanford, and Andrea Young.

New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes Awarded to Aaron Naber, Maryna Viazovska, Zhiwei Yun, and Wei Zhang.

Third Annual International Breakthrough Junior Challenge Won by Hillary Diane Andales.

Laureates to be honored at glittering awards gala hosted by Morgan Freeman, with live performance by Wiz Khalifa and musician Nana Ou-Yang, and presentations from Mayim Bialik, Lily Collins, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Katie Ledecky, Kerry Washington, John Urschel, Miss USA Kára McCullough and the founders of the Breakthrough Prize.

December 3, 2017 – (San Francisco) – The Breakthrough Prize and sponsors Sergey Brin, Yuri and Julia Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Anne Wojcicki, and Pony Ma, will tonight announce the recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prizes, which recognize top achievements in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. A combined total of $22 million will be awarded at the gala ceremony in Silicon Valley, to be hosted by Morgan Freeman, which will air live tonight on National Geographic at 10p ET/7p PT. Each Breakthrough Prize award is $3 million, the largest individual monetary prize in science.

This year, a total of seven $3 million prizes will be awarded. In addition, three $100,000 New Horizons in Physics Prizes will be awarded to three early-career physicists, and three New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes totaling $300,000 will be awarded to four early-career mathematicians. The Breakthrough Junior Challenge will recognize one student with a $250,000 scholarship and provide an additional $150,000 in educational prizes for the winner’s science teacher and school.

Since its inception in 2012, the Breakthrough Prize has awarded close to $200 million to honor paradigm-shifting research in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences, and mathematics.

“The Breakthrough Prize was created to celebrate the achievements of scientists, physicists, and mathematicians, whose genius help us understand our world, and whose advances shape our future,” said Breakthrough Prize co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg. “The world needs their inspiration, and their reminder that even though it doesn’t always feel that way, we are making steady progress toward building a better future for everyone. Priscilla and I want to congratulate all of tonight’s laureates and give our deepest thanks for all that they do.”

The 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences will be awarded to Joanne Chory (Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Don W. Cleveland (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at University of California, San Diego), Kazutoshi Mori (Kyoto University), Kim Nasmyth (University of Oxford) and Peter Walter (University of California, San Francisco).

The 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics will be awarded to Charles L. Bennett (Johns Hopkins University), Gary Hinshaw (University of British Columbia), Norman Jarosik (Princeton University), Lyman Page Jr. (Princeton University), and David N. Spergel (Princeton University).

The 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics will be awarded to Christopher Hacon (University of Utah) and James McKernan (University of California, San Diego).

Laureates will take to the stage tonight at an exclusive gala co-hosted by founders Sergey Brin, Yuri and Julia Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Anne Wojcicki, Pony Ma, and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter. Academy Award®-winning actor Morgan Freeman will host the show, which will feature a performance by multi-platinum selling hip hop artist and entrepreneur Wiz Khalifa with musician Nana Ou-Yang, presentations from actress Mila Kunis, actor and investor Ashton Kutcher, critically acclaimed actress and producer Kerry Washington, actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik, actress Lily Collins, U.S. Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, former NFL player turned mathematician John Urschel and Miss USA Kára McCullough, as well as the founders of the Breakthrough Prize. The theme of the evening will be “Sparks of Creation.” The ceremony will be directed and produced, for the fifth time, by Don Mischer alongside executive producers Charlie Haykel and Juliane Hare of Don Mischer Productions.

“It is always the right time to celebrate great scientists,” said Internet investor and science philanthropist Yuri Milner. “All of our futures depend on them.”

In addition, six New Horizons Prizes – an annual prize of $100,000, recognizing the achievements of early-career physicists and mathematicians – will be awarded.

The New Horizons in Physics Prize is awarded to: Christopher Hirata (Ohio State University), Andrea Young (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Douglas Stanford (Institute for Advanced Study and Stanford University).

The New Horizons in Mathematics Prize is awarded to: Aaron Naber (Northwestern University), Maryna Viazovska (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Zhiwei Yun (Yale University), and Wei Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University).

“Every year I am inspired by the Breakthrough Prize laureates and the deep insights that are made possible by pure curiosity-driven research. This year is no exception," said Breakthrough Prize co-founder, Anne Wojcicki.

The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is a global science video competition designed to inspire creative thinking about fundamental concepts in the life sciences, physics, and mathematics. In recognition of her winning submission, Hillary Diane Andales receives up to $400,000 in educational prizes, including a scholarship worth up to $250,000, another $50,000 for the science teacher who inspired her, and a state-of-the-art science lab valued at $100,000 designed by and in partnership with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

This was Andales’ second time in the competition, and last year, she was the Top Scorer in the Popular Vote, a segment of the contest that allows the public to vote for their favorites online. As the Top Scorer in the Popular Vote, she won a DNA molecular-biology laboratory as her school recovered from damage by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. This year, her overall victory in the competition will secure for her school a Fabrication/Physics/Design/Innovation Lab.

More than 11,000 entries from 178 countries were received in the 2017 installment of the global competition, which kicked off on September 1, 2017. The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is funded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Yuri and Julia Milner, through the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, based on a grant from Mark Zuckerberg’s fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and a grant from the Milner Global Foundation.

2018 Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences honors transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life, with one prize dedicated to work that contributes to the understanding of neurological diseases.

Each of the five Life Science winners will receive a $3 million prize.

Joanne Chory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
For discovering the molecular mechanisms by which plants extract information from light and shade to modify their programs of shoot and leaf growth in the photosynthetic harvest of light.
Don W. Cleveland
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at University of California, San Diego
For elucidating the molecular pathogenesis of a type of inherited ALS, including the role of glia in neurodegeneration, and for establishing antisense oligonucleotide therapy in animal models of ALS and Huntington disease.
Kazutoshi Mori
Kyoto University
For elucidating the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system that detects disease-causing unfolded proteins and directs cells to take corrective measures.
Kim Nasmyth
University of Oxford
For elucidating the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby prevents genetic diseases such as cancer.
Peter Walter
University of California, San Francisco and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Also for elucidating the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system that detects disease-causing unfolded proteins and directs cells to take corrective measures.

2018 Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics

The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizes major insights into the deepest questions of the universe.

The $3 million physics prize will be shared among the entire 27-member WMAP experimental team, including the following five team leaders:

Charles L. Bennett
Johns Hopkins University
Gary Hinshaw
University of British Columbia
Norman Jarosik
Princeton University
Lyman Page, Jr.
Princeton University
David N. Spergel
Princeton University

For detailed maps of the early universe that greatly improved our knowledge of the evolution of the cosmos and the fluctuations that seeded the formation of galaxies.

2018 Breakthrough Prize In Mathematics

The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics honors the world’s best mathematicians who have contributed to major advances in the field.

The joint winners of the $3 million prize, are:

Christopher Hacon
University of Utah
James McKernan
University of California, San Diego

For transformational contributions to birational algebraic geometry, especially to the minimal model program in all dimensions.

2018 New Horizons In Physics Prize

The New Horizons in Physics Prize is awarded to promising early-career researchers who have already produced important work in fundamental physics.

Christopher Hirata
Ohio State University
Andrea Young
University of California, Santa Barbara
Douglas Stanford
Institute for Advanced Study and Stanford University

2018 New Horizons In Mathematics Prize

The New Horizons in Mathematics Prize is awarded to promising early-career researchers who have already produced important work in mathematics.

Aaron Naber
Northwestern University
Maryna Viazovska
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Zhiwei Yun
Yale University
Wei Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University

2017 Breakthrough Junior Challenge

The third annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge will recognize Hillary Diane Andales (18) of the Philippines. She will receive $250,000 in educational prizes; her science teacher will receive $50,000; and her school will receive a new science laboratory valued at $100,000 designed by and in partnership with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Hillary’s video, submitted in the physics category, focused on reference frames in general relativity.

Images and select video from the 2018 Breakthrough Prize Gala – red carpet and ceremony – can be downloaded for media use at: http://www.epklink.com/2018breakthroughprize

About the Breakthrough Prizes

For the sixth year, the Breakthrough Prizes will recognize the contributions of the world’s top scientists. Each prize is $3 million and awarded in the fields of Life Sciences (up to five per year), Fundamental Physics (up to one per year) and Mathematics (up to one per year). In addition, up to three New Horizons in Physics and up to three New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes are given out to early-career researchers each year. Laureates attend a televised awards ceremony designed to celebrate their achievements and inspire the next generation of scientists. As part of the ceremony schedule, they also engage in a program of lectures and discussions. The Breakthrough Prizes were founded by Sergey Brin, Yuri and Julia Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Anne Wojcicki, and Pony Ma. Selection Committees composed of previous Breakthrough Prize laureates choose the winners.

Information on the Breakthrough Prizes is available at breakthroughprize.org.

Contacts

For Breakthrough Prize

Contact: Rubenstein
Janet Wootten – [email protected] / 212-843-8024
Emily Gest – [email protected] / 212-843-8061
Kristen Bothwell – [email protected] / 212-843-9227