2020 Breakthrough Prize winners

Category

Laureate

Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Alex Eskin

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Jeffrey M. Friedman

F. Ulrich Hartl

Arthur L. Horwich

David Julius

Virginia M.-Y. Lee

2020 Breakthrough Prize winners

Category

Laureate

Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Alex Eskin

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Jeffrey M. Friedman

F. Ulrich Hartl

Arthur L. Horwich

David Julius

Virginia M.-Y. Lee

2019

2019 Breakthrough Prize winners

Category

Laureate

Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Vincent Lafforgue

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Charles Kane, Eugene Mele

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

C. Frank Bennett

Adrian R. Krainer

Angelika Amon

Xiaowei Zhuang

Zhijian James Chen

2018

2018 Breakthrough Prize winners

Category

Laureate

Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Christopher Hacon

James McKernan

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Charles L. Bennett

Gary Hinshaw

Norman Jarosik, Lyman Page Jr., David N. Spergel and the WMAP Science Team

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Joanne Chory

Peter Walter

Kazutoshi Mori

Kim Nasmyth

Don W. Cleveland

2017

2017 Breakthrough Prize winners

Category

Laureate

Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Jean Bourgain

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Joseph Polchinski

Andrew Strominger, Cumrun Vafa

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Stephen J. Elledge

Harry F. Noller

Roeland Nusse

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Huda Yahya Zoghbi

2016

2016 Breakthrough Prize winners

Category

Laureate

Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Ian Agol

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Yifang Wang; Kam-Biu Luk and the Daya Bay Team

Atsuto Suzuki and the KamLAND Team

Kōichirō Nishikawa and the K2K / T2K Team

Arthur B. McDonald and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Team

Takaaki Kajita;

Yōichirō Suzuki and the Super-Kamiokande Team

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Edward S. Boyden

John Hardy

Helen Hobbs

Svante Pääbo