A-List Night Lights Up Breakthrough Prize: Science’s Oscars
Celebrities including Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain and more gathered at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar for the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, billed as the Oscars of the sciences. Six $3 million prizes were awarded in life sciences, mathematics and fundamental physics to teams led by Jean Bennett, Katherine High and Albert Maguire; Stuart H. Orkin and Swee Lay Thein; Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor; Frank Merle; the Muon g-2 Collaborations; and David J. Gross (Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics). The event highlighted breakthroughs from gene therapies for inherited blindness and sickle cell disease to ALS and dementia genetics, with tech leaders and A-listers in attendance.