Three physicists won a $3 million Breakthrough prize for a series of experiments that began using cheap equipment on a tabletop in Seattle and ended up hunting dark matter. Source: https://www.livescience.com/torsion-balance-breakthrough-prize.html
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UK Mathematician Wins Richest Prize in Academia For His Work On Stochastic Analysis
Lanodonal writes: A mathematician who tamed a nightmarish family of equations that behave so badly they make no sense has won the most lucrative prize in academia. Martin Hairer, an Austrian-British researcher at Imperial College London, is the winner of the 2021 Breakthrough prize for mathematics, an annual $3m award that has come to rival the Nobels in terms of kudos…
Pioneering gravity research snags $3 million physics Breakthrough Prize
A team of physicists just snagged $3 million for testing the law of gravity like never before. Source: https://www.livescience.com/breakthrough-prize-fundamental-physics-gravity.html
Team behind world’s first black hole image wins ‘Oscar of science’
The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world’s first image of a black hole were honored Thursday with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, winning $3 million dollars for what is known as the “Oscars of science.” Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-09-team-world-black-hole-image.html…
First Ever Black Hole Image Earns Researchers a $3 Million Prize
The team of researchers that captured the first direct image of a black hole was honored with an “Oscar of Science” — the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Source: https://www.livescience.com/breakthrough-prize-2019-eht-black-hole.html
Mathematician Wins $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for ‘Magic Wand Theorem’
Their research answered many questions. Among them: What happens if you put a candle in a room full of perfect mirrors? Source: https://www.livescience.com/breakthrough-prize-mathematics-2019-winners.html
Scientists win millions in the 2020 Breakthrough Prize
The Breakthrough Prize rewards work in physics, mathematics, and the life sciences, and it has just awarded almost $20 million to researchers around the world Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2215476-scientists-win-millions-in-the-2020-breakthrough-prize/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Shep Doeleman on the Breakthrough Prize-winning black hole photo
The team behind the first ever image of a black hole has won the prestigious $3m Breakthrough Prize. New Scientist spoke with the group’s leader, Shep Doeleman Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2215485-shep-doeleman-on-the-breakthrough-prize-winning-black-hole-photo/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…