Breakthrough

Breakthrough © Asylum Entertainment
Breakthrough

Synopsis

The Breakthrough Prize honors the world's top scientists and mathematicians in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics at an award ceremony designed to celebrate their achievements and inspire the next generation of scientists. Each laureate receives $3 million in prize money. Morgan Freeman and celebrity award presenters will pay tribute to the worlds' most brilliant minds - those taking the biggest leaps toward curing diseases, building new technologies, and bringing us closer to understanding the nature of the Cosmos, before an audience of leading figures from the worlds of technology, business, entertainment and academia at Hangar 1 at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.