{"id":48572,"date":"2025-05-28T01:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=48572"},"modified":"2025-05-29T01:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:46:47","slug":"breakthrough-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/breakthrough-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Breakthrough Prizes Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was jointly awarded to four experimental collaborations operating at CERN&#8217;s Large Hadron Collider (LHC)\u2014ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb, with Indian scientists playing a key role in the success of the ALICE and CMS experiments.<\/p>\n<h2>About Breakthrough Prizes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Breakthrough Prizes\u00a0<strong>honor important, primarily recent, achievements<\/strong>\u00a0in the fields of\u00a0<strong>Life Sciences<\/strong>\u00a0(with a specific prize dedicated to work related to Parkinson\u2019s Disease, and Neurodegenerative disorders),\u00a0<strong>fundamental physics, and mathematics.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These prestigious awards were\u00a0<strong>founded in 2013 by Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>his spouse Priscilla Chan, former Google CEO Sergey Brin<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Anne Wojcicki,<\/strong>\u00a0the founder of the genomics company 23&amp;Me, and\u00a0<strong>tech investors Yuri and Julia Milner.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Often referred to as the\u00a0<strong>\u201cOscars of Science\u201d<\/strong>, the mission of the Breakthrough Prizes is to recognize individual accomplishments, celebrate scientists as societal heroes, inspire future generations of scientists, and advocate for &#8220;science for the benefit of all&#8221; as a global, non-political organization.<\/li>\n<li>Each Breakthrough Prize\u00a0<strong>carries a monetary award of $3 million,<\/strong>\u00a0significantly\u00a0<strong>higher than the Nobel Prize.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Committees of previous laureates choose the winners from candidates nominated<\/strong>\u00a0in a\u00a0<strong>process that\u2019s online and open to the public.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<strong>attend a televised award ceremony\u00a0<\/strong>designed to celebrate their achievements and inspire the next generation of scientists. As part of the ceremony schedule, they also\u00a0<strong>engage in a program of lectures and discussions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Those who make fresh discoveries again remain eligible for future Breakthrough Prizes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Breakthrough Prizes FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0The Breakthrough Prizes primarily recognize achievements in which fields?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the monetary value of each Breakthrough Prize?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0$3 million<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0How are Breakthrough Prize winners selected?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0By committees of previous laureates from public nominations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2131339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breakthrough Prizes honor important, primarily recent, achievements in the fields of Life Sciences, fundamental physics, and mathematics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[617,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-48572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-breakthrough-prizes","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}