BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE

The Breakthrough Prize is the world's largest science prize. Its founders are Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan, Julia and Yuri Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg. The Prize recognizes discoveries in fundamental physics, life science and mathematics... Science is revealing worlds far beyond the everyday scale, from the subatomic and cellular to the stellar and galactic. Increasingly we can think at these levels and trace the connections between them. And as we do, we are making progress on the truly big questions.

Also known as: Breakthrough Prize Foundation