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Science's "Breakthrough" Winners Earn Over $21 Million In Prizes (reuters.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the big-brains-big-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Founded by Sergey Brin of Google, Anne Wojcicki of 23andme, Mark Zuckerberg and others, the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest scientists and their discoveries. For the third year Russian billionaire Yuri Milner handed out seven $3 million awards to scientists, researchers, and a high school student for their accomplishments.

18 comments

  1. They seem to like people with wide interests... by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 1

    ...judging from this line:

    Some 1370 physicians are being honored as part of a single $3 million prize for their work confirming the theory of neutrino oscillation, a phenomenon in quantum mechanics.

  2. Wow... by koan · · Score: 1

    Did "clock boy" win?

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    1. Re:Wow... by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 3, Funny

      Did "clock boy" win?

      What do you think this is, the Nobel Prize committee?

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    2. Re:Wow... by fredrated · · Score: 1

      To be more precise, do you think this is the Nobel Peace Prize committee?

    3. Re:Wow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly, couldn't have said it better myself!

      APK

      P.S.=> Can't wait until our Islamic president is out of office!...apk

  3. Here's an open question in science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What happens when the the Arabs have bred out white people in Europe?

    1. Re: Here's an open question in science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's the goal

    2. Re:Here's an open question in science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > What happens when the the Arabs have bred out white people in Europe?

      A crusade. Europe had been there, seen that, done that. Arabs/muslims are lazy and not very efficient with military and tech, so even a minority paleface force can defeat them. The Iberian peninsula was cleansed of them just before Columbus set sail and Eastern Europe and the Balkans were cleansed of them a few decades before WW1. Nowadays Turkey only has a token worth of land left in Europe. Can you imagine the wikings the day brainwash fails and they realize Scandinavia had become the new Somali-land? There will be a lot of swinging of the swedish steel battle-axe.

  4. terrible article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    It names the host and entertainers in the ceremony, but not a single one of the winners, never mind what their achievements are beyond the first line from two of the laudations.

    1. Re:terrible article by Raseri · · Score: 1

      You need to scroll down to see the whole article. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll win a prize of some sort some day.

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    2. Re:terrible article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      There is one paragraph describing a prize for neutrino oscillations, where they can't even tell the difference between physicians and physicists, a second paragraph that describes a math prize with a single sentence, and two other sentences that just give a vague description of the range of prize topics. There are some five paragraphs describing the guy who started the prize, and three paragraphs describing what celebrities and business people will be there. There is no more detail from scrolling further down...

  5. James Bond Villain or Yuri Milner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Worth noting that Yuri Milner is also competing in the "James Bond Villain Look-Alike Contest" and presently leading in the Blofeld category.

  6. seven hundred bucks is seven hundred bucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "...Physics

    The prize will be shared among 1370 physicists representing five international teams, who will share $1 million, and their seven team leaders, who will share $2 million.

    The teams built technically challenging experiments in underground caves to trap the neutrino, and thereby confirmed the theory of neutrino oscillation."

    Well, usually in mega collaborations, there are not enough credit opportunities to go around. They each get USD $700 on a 3 Million prize

  7. Some Perspective? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Isn't this almost as much as a single top level football player makes in a year?

  8. Better article by SoftwareArtist · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a much better article: http://www.nytimes.com/interac.... The one linked in the summary doesn't even say who most of the winners were.

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  9. Re:Corrected for you! by tehcyder · · Score: 1

    > ... the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest scientists and their discoveries. ... the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest profit-making scientists and their discoveries.

    They couldn't care less about the little people, if anything the mega-rich want to be even richer and in a world with a total 0.5 billion or less population, so their ranches, stretch limos and mega yachts can grow more elbow space. In their world-view only 3 kinds of people can fit: programmers coding 7/24 on drugs, the executive class and those who provide the execs with a gilded life (private security, servants, cooks, harlots a.k.a. personal fitness trainers and designer drug chemists). Andbody else, like peasants or elderly are either unneeded or can be replaced by robots at less cost/more profit.

    So you're saying the future's looking good for slashdotters?

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