Tech Leaders Create Most Lucrative Science Prize In History

redletterdave writes "Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Yuri Milner have teamed up to create The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, which now offers the most lucrative annual prize in the history of science: A $33 million pot to be split among 11 people, with individual rewards worth $3 million apiece. Comparatively, the monetary value of the Nobel prize is just $1.1 million. 'Our society needs more heroes who are scientists, researchers and engineers,' Zuckerberg said. 'We need to celebrate and reward the people who cure diseases, expand our understanding of humanity and work to improve people's lives.'"

Comments

Re:Good, with a "but"...

[will_die]

Barak is that you???
The Nobel prize gave up being there for reputation years ago, before giving it to President Obama, it is totally about getting the money and getting your name in the news by people who still think there is some reputation to the name.

Re:Was Zuckerberg always so thoughtful-

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah. Just a bunch of Jews giving money to some other Jews. More of an ethnic networking sort of thing.