{"id":17946,"date":"2017-12-04T01:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/04\/researchers-share-22m-breakthrough-prize-as-science-gets-rock-star-treatment\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T01:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T00:30:01","slug":"researchers-share-22m-breakthrough-prize-as-science-gets-rock-star-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=17946","title":{"rendered":"Researchers share $22m Breakthrough prize as science gets rock star treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glitzy ceremony honours work including that on mapping post-big 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 away $22m (\u00a316.3m) in prizes to dozens of physicists, biologists and mathematicians at a ceremony in Silicon Valley.The winners this year include five researchers who won $3m (\u00a32.2m) 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 big bang 13.8 billion years ago. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/dec\/04\/researchers-share-22m-breakthrough-prize-as-science-gets-rock-star-treatment\" target=\"_blank\">Researchers share m Breakthrough prize as science gets rock star treatment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glitzy ceremony honours work including that on mapping post-big 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 away $22m (\u00a316.3m) in prizes to dozens of physicists, biologists and mathematicians at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}