Breakthrough Prize Award Ceremony 2019

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Mountain View, CA Photographer: Justin Weiner Known as the “Oscars for Scientific Achievement”, The Breakthrough Prize Awards are an annual event, broadcast live on Nat Geo and YouTube. In 2019, the foundation awarded $21.6 million for a variety of scientific breakthroughs, such as creating the first image of a black hole, determining the biological basis of obesity and discoveries in the biochemistry of pain sensations among other exemplary displays of human scientific achievement.