Breakthrough Prize

The Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by the Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of scientific advances.

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Life-Changing Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Wins $3-Million Breakthrough Prize

Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

DeepMind scientists win $3 million 'Breakthrough Prize' for AI that predicts every protein's structure

Emmanuel Mignot wins Breakthrough Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy

DeepMind scientists win $3 million 'Breakthrough Prize' for AI that predicts every protein's structure

AlphaFold Developers Win $3-Million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Scientists who discovered cause of narcolepsy win Breakthrough Prize

Quantum Physics Titans Win Breakthrough Prize

Quantum Tech Titans Win Breakthrough Prize in Physics

National Radio Astronomy Observatory Congratulates Winners of Breakthrough Prize Awards

Super-precise clock tech wins $3 million physics Breakthrough Prize

2 scientists win $3 million 'Breakthrough Prize' for mRNA tech behind COVID-19 vaccines