The Breakthrough Prize was established by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.
The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences honors transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life, with one prize dedicated to work that contributes to the understanding of Parkinson’s disease.
The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics honors the world’s best mathematicians who have contributed to major advances in the field.
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizes major insights into the deepest questions of the Universe.