Breakthrough Prizes Awarded to Ten with Institute Affiliations

Founded by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, the Breakthrough Prizes aim to celebrate scientists and generate excitement about the pursuit of science as a career.

Saul Perlmutter, former Member (2011) in the School of Natural Sciences, received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, which recognizes major insights into the deepest questions of the universe. Additionally, John Tonry former Member (1980–82) in the School of Natural Sciences, is a member of the High–Z Supernovae Search Team that also won the Breakthrough Prize in Physics. The New Horizons in Physics Prize was awarded to two former Members in the School of Natural Sciences, Philip Schuster (2011) and Natalia Toro (2011), for their work on pioneering the simplified models framework for new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider. Horacio Casini (2014) and Marina Huerta (2014), two former Visitors in the School of Natural Sciences, also received the New Horizons in Physics Prize for fundamental ideals about entropy in quantum field theory and quantum gravity.

Previously announced Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics winners include Richard Taylor, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor in the School of Mathematics, and former Members in the School Simon Donaldson (1983–84), Maxim Kontsevich (1992–93, 2002), and Terence Tao (2005).