Pascal MAYER

Researchers in Israel have found an RNA segment still present in modern ribosomes that could be a “missing link” between the RNA world and DNA/protein-based life. phys.org/news/2022-09-l…

James Maynard receives the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for multiple contributions to analytic number theory, and in particular to the distribution of prime numbers. @UniofOxford @the_IAS breakthroughprize.org/News/73

Congratulations to Ronen Eldan for winning the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for the creation of the stochastic localization method, leading to progress in open problems in high-dimensional geometry and probability. @WeizmannScience @MSFTResearch breakthroughprize.org/News/73

Congratulations to Ana Caraiani - the New Horizons Prize for transformative contributions to the Langlands program, and for work on the Hodge-Tate period map for Shimura varieties and its applications. @UniBonn @imperialcollege breakthroughprize.org/News/73

Kang-Kuen Ni, Hannes Pichler, Jeff Thompson - the New Horizons Prize for developing optical tweezer arrays to realize control of atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, molecular physics. @Harvard @uniinnsbruck @Princeton @oeaw breakthroughprize.org/News/73

Hannes Bernien, Manuel Endres, Adam Kaufman - receive the New Horizons Prize for developing optical tweezer arrays to realize control of atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, molecular physics. @UChicago @Caltech @JILAscience breakthroughprize.org/News/73

The New Horizons in Physics Prize is awarded to Anna Grassellino @Fermilab - for the discovery of major performance enhancements to niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavities, with applications ranging from accelerator physics to quantum devices. breakthroughprize.org/News/73

Congratulations to David Simmons-Duffin @Caltech, awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize for the development of analytical and numerical techniques to study conformal field theories. breakthroughprize.org/News/73

Congratulations to Vera Traub @UniBonn for receiving the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for advances in approximation results in classical combinatorial optimization problems, including the traveling salesman problem and network design. breakthroughprize.org/News/73

Jinyoung Park @Stanford is awarded a Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for contributions to the resolution of several major conjectures on thresholds and selector processes. breakthroughprize.org/News/73

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

Congratulations to all 25 of this year’s prize laureates - they have discovered fundamental truths that promise new technologies and treatments, and a brighter future for us all. breakthroughprize.org/News/73

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

Abstract mathematics powers the real world. Daniel Spielman’s algorithms are used for computing, signal processing, design of clinical trials and many more applications. Congratulations to him for winning the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. @Yale

Narcolepsy is a serious neurodegenerative disease. Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa’s labs discovered its cause, and so revealed a key cellular mechanism regulating sleep and wakefulness. They share the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. @StanfordMed @UofTsukuba

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

“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.

Join me in congratulating these exceptional scientists recognized by this prestigious prize for their paradigm shifting contributions.

Join me in congratulating these exceptional scientists recognized by this prestigious prize for their paradigm shifting contributions.

Join me in congratulating these exceptional scientists recognized by this prestigious prize for their paradigm shifting contributions.