Zuckerberg and the Russian billionaire rewards top scientist $25 million-IT information

According to foreign media reports, Sunday night local time, a number of technology billionaires, celebrities and prominent scientists gathered at NASA's Ames Research Center, took part in an Oscar-style awards ceremony, celebrating the scientific community made a number of significant achievements this year.

In its fifth year, the scientific breakthrough of the year award (Breakthrough Prizes) for life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics of top researchers awarded $3 million per person, more than any other Science Awards. , Including scientific breakthrough award, composed of previous winners of the Sub-Commission granted a total of 15 awards this year, including 6 New Horizons award of a bonus of 100,000 dollars, a bonus of $250,000 award for Breakthrough Junior. The total amount of these awards as much as $25 million.

These awards by Russia billionaire and investor Yuri Milner set up in 2012, initially dedicated reward scientific achievements in the field of theoretical physics. Since then, with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckburg), Google co-founder Sergey Brin (Sergey Brin), and Alibaba's Jack Ma, who joined, these awards awards extended to other areas of science.

扎克伯格与俄亿万富翁奖励顶尖科学家2500万美元 - IT资讯

据外媒报道，当地时间周日晚间，多位科技亿万富翁、名流和杰出科学家齐聚NASA的艾姆斯研究中心，参加了一场奥斯卡式的颁奖典礼，庆祝科学界今年取得的多项重大成就。

在成立的第五个年头，今年的科学突破奖（Breakthrough Prizes）对生命科学、基础物理和数学领域的顶级研究人员每人奖励了300万美元，超过其他任何科学奖项。包括科学突破奖在内，由往届获奖者组成的小组委员会今年共授予了15个奖项，其中包括6个奖金10万美元的New Horizons奖，一个奖金25万美元的Breakthrough Junior奖。这些奖项的总金额高达2500万美元。

这些奖项由俄罗斯亿万富翁兼投资人尤里·米尔纳在2012年设立，最初专门奖励理论物理学领域的科学成就。此后，随着Facebook CEO马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckburg）、谷歌创始人谢尔盖·布林（Sergey Brin）、以及阿里巴巴马云等人的加入，这些奖项的颁奖范围扩至了其他科学领域。