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    Sep 22, 2022
    “Change the world” is a phrase we hear a lot. But Demis Hassabis and John Jumper @DeepMind did. AlphaFold has solved the protein structure prediction problem, one of the central challenges in biology and medicine. They win the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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    Sep 22, 2022
    Long before quantum computers, there were thinkers with the imagination to lay the conceptual foundation. Quantum pioneers Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch, Peter Shor win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. @MIT @UniofOxford @UMontreal @IBMResearch
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    Apr 5, 2025
    David Liu wins the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing gene-editing technologies, including a "molecular word processor" that can find and replace whole sequences of DNA. His tools are already impacting diseases including cancer. breakthroughprize.org/News/91
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    Sep 22, 2022
    Congratulations to Maggie Miller @Stanford - a Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize winner for work on fibered ribbon knots and surfaces in 4-dimensional manifolds. breakthroughprize.org/News/73
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    Sep 14, 2023
    Carl June and Michel Sadelain created CAR T immunotherapy, modifying the body's T cells to fight cancer. For this advance they are awarded 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. breakthroughprize.org/News/83 @MSKCancerCenter @Penn @PennMedicine
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    Sep 10, 2020
    Congratulations to Catherine Dulac - awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for identifying brain circuits that control parenting behavior @Harvard @HHMINEWS @DulacLab breakthroughprize.org/News/60
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    Apr 5, 2025
    Over more than 6 decades, Gerard 't Hooft's discoveries have been critical in the development of modern quantum field theory and the Standard Model of particle physics – not to mention his other contributions, from black holes to holography. This year, a Special Breakthrough
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    Sep 10, 2020
    Congrats to Ahmed Almheiri, Netta Engelhardt, Henry Maxfield, Geoff Penington: New Horizons in Physics Prize winners “for calculating the quantum information content of a black hole and its radiation.” @the_IAS @MIT @ucsantabarbara @UCBerkeley breakthroughprize.org/News/60
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    Jan 21, 2023
    #HBD Xiaowei Zhuang, Breakthrough Prize laureate who has helped create technologies like STORM & MERFISH that push past the diffraction limit of light to reveal images of proteins and other molecular actors in the cell. Learn more: bit.ly/xiaowei-zhuang Photo Brigitte Lacombe
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    Sep 5, 2019
    We’re pleased to announce that the @ehtelescope collaboration has won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Congratulations to the entire team, across 60 institutions and 20 countries. breakthroughprize.org/News/54 youtu.be/3QEPzP58neg
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    Sep 14, 2023
    Congratulations to Thomas Gasser, Ellen Sidransky and Andrew Singleton, who win the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering key genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease. breakthroughprize.org/News/83 @NIHAging @NIH @genome_gov @DZNE_en @uni_tue
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    Apr 5, 2025
    CERN's experiments are global efforts. The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors over 13,000 researchers whose labors have led to the precise description the Higgs mechanism, the discovery of dozens of new particles, analysis of rare processes and
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    Sep 10, 2020
    A Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to Steven Weinberg @UTAustin, a key architect of the Standard Model, and a hugely influential educator, communicator and advocate of science for well over half a century. breakthroughprize.org/News/61
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    Sep 22, 2022
    Life science is an open frontier. Clifford Brangwynne and Anthony Hyman discovered an entirely new system of cellular organization via membraneless liquid drops. Congratulations to them on winning the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. @Princeton @HHMINEWS @mpicbg
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