As one of the founders of the Breakthrough Prize foundation in Sciences, Mark Zuckerberg awarded a group of young scientists the New Horizons Prize in Mathematics. This was due to their hard work and dedication in discoveries about the universe, life, and the mind, named after the most far reaching probe in history, the New Horizons Space Probe.
One of the prizes, the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, is a $3 million grant, and it was presented to Ian Agol from the University of California at Berkeley and Institute for Advanced Study on November 8. The meaning of this award is to recognize young people that open up new ways of understanding humanity in the life sciences.
The board, of which Priscilla Chan is also a member, awarded five New Horizons prizes in addition. These are $100,000 grants that recognizes young scientists, physicists and mathematicians. The recipients for the New Horizons Prize in Physics were B. Andrei Bernevig, Liang Fu, Xiao-Liant Qi, Raphael Flauger, Leonardo Senatore and Yuji Tachikawa. The awardees for the New Horizons Prize in Mathematics were Larry Guth and André Arroja Neves.
Members of the Breakthrough Prize board expressed their excitement and the importance of every scientific achievement, as it is our duty as a community to support it.
The ceremony was produced and directed by Don Mischer Productions and broadcast live on National Geogrphic Channel, and it will air once more on FOX on November 29.
