Breakthrough Prize Opens Public Nominations For Its 2022 Prizes In Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences & Mathematics Copyright 2021 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved
2020-12-14
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The public nomination period for the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics is now open. Nominations can be submitted online today through April 1, 2021. While self-nominations are prohibited, anyone may nominate another person. The nomination forms and rules are available at breakthroughprize.org.
For the 10th year, the Breakthrough Prize, recognized as the world s largest science prize, will honor top scientists, handing out three prizes in Life Sciences, one in Fundamental Physics and one in Mathematics. In the Life Sciences category, one of the three prizes is designated for work contributing to the understanding of Parkinson s disease or other neurodegenerative disorders. Each prize comes with a $3 million aw
Angelika Amon, a pioneering geneticist and cell biologist, died on 29 October after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 53 years old. Angelika made important discoveries involving the control of chromosome segregation and the consequences of segregation errors. An innovative and outspoken scientist, she thrived on challenging dogmas and tackling unorthodox questions.
Born in Austria on 10 January 1967, Angelika first encountered the two loves of her life in high school. There, she met her future husband, Johannes Weis, who would become her constant companion for almost 40 years and the father of her beloved daughters, Theresa and Clara. In a science class, she also came across a grainy, black-and-white movie of chromosomes separating during mitosis. She would later identify that movie as the catalyst that spurred her to a lifetime of studying cell cycle genetics.