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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.

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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. 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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