Breakthrough

Anne Hathaway and Alex Honnold attended the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

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Media personality and entrepreneur @ParisHilton shared her enthusiasm for the Breakthrough Prize

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Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell at the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

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Anne Hathaway at the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet

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Anne Hathaway shared her admiration for those advancing humanity through science. She also reflected on the excitement and uncertainty of innovation, expressing cautious optimism about emerging technologies and her hope to help shape how they are used for t...

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen attended the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky at the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

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INTO THE LIGHT: Jean Bennett, Kathy High, Albert Maguire: 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

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Jean Bennett, Katherine A. High and Albert Maguire shared the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. This prize recognizes work that led to the first FDA–approved gene replacement therapy. It has transformed the lives of people born with Leber congenital...

FORCE OF NATURE: David Gross: 2026 Special Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

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David J. Gross has been a leading figure in fundamental physics for six decades. In the early 1970s, there was a gap in quantum field theory, our best theory of particles and forces. The theory could not describe or accurately predict the strong nuclear for...

BLOW UP: Frank Merle's Journey to 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

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2026 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics laureate Frank Merle’s work has significantly advanced the modern understanding of nonlinear evolution equations – the mathematical descriptions of how waves, fluids, and other dynamic systems change over time. His wor...

CRACK IN THE VAULT: Muon G-2 Story w/ David Hertzog: 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

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Across more than six decades, scientists and engineers from three muon g-2 collaborations, representing dozens of institutions, have pushed experimental precision ever higher in pursuit of a single, very significant number: the anomalous magnetic moment of ...

ALS and FTD: Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor: Story of Discovery of Most Common Genetic Cause

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2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences laureates Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor independently solved a decades-old mystery in neurodegenerative disease by discovering the most common genetic cause of both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known...

BEYOND THE WALLS: Cliff Brangwynne and Anthony Hyman Discover a New Cellular Process

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Clifford P. Brangwynne and Anthony A. Hyman were awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for the discovery of a new cellular process. Until recently, it was thought that most of the work in a cell goes on in organelles – specialized subunits en...