FOX will air the one-hour version of BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE ceremony, hosted by Morgan Freeman on Sunday, December 18th at 7/6c. Vin Diesel, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeremy Irons, Alicia Keys, Sienna Miller, Dev Patel and Will.I.Am celebrate Science at the fifth annual event. Watch a promo below!
The BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE marked its fifth anniversary celebrating top achievements in the fields of physics, life sciences and mathematics, with a star-studded ceremony which was broadcast live in its entirety on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC at 10/9c on Sunday, Dec. 4, at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. An edited one-hour version of the ceremony will air Sunday, Dec. 18 (7:00-8:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. The edited version also will air globally on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC in 171 countries and 45 languages.
The ceremony was hosted by Academy Award®-winning actor Morgan Freeman and featured a special performance by 15-time Grammy®-winning singer, songwriter and producer Alicia Keys.
The BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE ceremony is presented by co-founders Sergey Brin (Google) and Anne Wojcicki (23andMe), Yuri Milner (DST Global) and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Priscilla Chan (Chan Zuckerberg Initiatives), along with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.
Now in its fifth year, the BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE - Silicon Valley's munificent Science prize - honors paradigm-shifting research and discovery in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences and mathematics. Across all categories for this year, the BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE Foundation will award $25 million to honor both outstanding career achievement and emerging talent. This year, a total of eight $3 million prizes will be awarded to 12 individuals. Additionally, another six $100,000 prizes will be awarded to 10 winners of the New Horizons in Physics and Mathematics Prizes. The ceremony will also recognize the winner of the second annual BREAKTHROUGH Junior Challenge for students, which will award $250,000 scholarship to a student whose original Science video brings to life an important scientific or mathematical idea or principle. The Science teacher who inspired the winning student will win $50,000. The winner's school will also receive a state-of-the-art Science lab valued at $100,000.
