Gallery: Behind the Scenes at the Breakthrough Prizes, the Glitzy Oscars for Science
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The 2016 Breakthrough Prize winners gather onstage on November 8, 2015 in Mountain View, California.
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Julia Milner and entrepreneur Yuri Milner attend the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on November 8, 2015 in Mountain View, California.
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Retired US Army Gen. David Petraeus.
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Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick.
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Chef Thomas Keller of the French Laundry.
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Khan Academy founder Salman Khan and his date.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and entrepreneur Yuri Milner.
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Actor Hilary Swank and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Helen Hobbs, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
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Actor Russell Crowe and Google, Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai.
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Ian Agol, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley.
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Karl Deisseroth, Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry at Stanford University.
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Edward S. Boyden, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute, Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
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Pharrell Williams performs onstage during the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on November 8, 2015.
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Some of the 2016 Breakthrough winners onstage.
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Yuri Milner, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Director, Svante Pääbo, and singer Christina Aguilera.
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Actors Martin Starr and Kumail Nanjiani.
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Breakthrough Junior Challenge Award Winner Ryan Chester and Priscilla Chan.
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John Hardy, Professor of Neuroscience at the University College Institute of Neurology in London.
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Biologist and 23andMe co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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