Glitzy ceremony honours work including that on mapping post-gargantuan bang primordial light,cell biology, plant science and neurodegenerative diseaseThe most glitzy event on the scientific calendar took place on Sunday night when the Breakthrough Foundation gave absent $22m (£16.3m) in prizes to dozens of physicists, and biologists and mathematicians at a ceremony in Silicon Valley.
The winners this year include five researchers who won $3m (£2.2m) each for their work on cell biology,plant science and neurodegenerative diseases, two mathematicians, and a team of 27 physicists who mapped the primordial light that warmed the universe moments after the gargantuan bang 13.8 billion years ago.
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Source: guardian.co.uk