Earlier than Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King head to house subsequent week, they attended the out-of-this-world “Oscars of science” on Saturday evening in Los Angeles.
The trio — who will blast off on April 14 as a part of first all-women house flight since 1963 — attended the annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony the place stars additionally included Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Drew Barrymore, latest Oscar winner Zoe Saldaña, Lizzo, Christina Aguilera, Will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Jodie Foster and lots of extra.
The Breakthrough Prize — created by founding sponsors Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Julia and Yuri Milner and Anne Wojcicki — yearly offers out six prime prizes of $3 million every in classes comparable to Life Sciences, Basic Physics, and Arithmetic, moderately than Greatest Image.
Total prize cash at this 12 months’s eleventh annual gala totaled $18.75 million, and greater than $326 million has been awarded over the previous 14 years.
Breakthrough Prize
On the revolutionary occasion, Hollywood stars and enterprise titans combined freely with prime teachers and scientists who made breakthrough discoveries this 12 months in areas comparable to gene modifying, human ailments and the basic particles of the universe.
Contained in the ceremony at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., Fox Company and Information Corp. chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch and his spouse, molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, have been noticed congratulating Jasmine Eyal, the Singapore-based winner of this 12 months’s annual Breakthrough Junior Problem.
(For her profitable entry on mechanogenetic mobile engineering, Eyal and her science trainer Julie Li-Eyal have been awarded a complete of $400,000 in instructional prizes, and Jasmine obtained a $250,000 school scholarship.)
Additionally on the bookish bash was Information Corp. CEO Robert Thomson, in addition to Microsoft cofounder Invoice Gates, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, artist Jeff Koons, Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson, former Alphabet boss Brin and Fb founder Zuckerberg.
The cerebral ceremony additionally introduced out a galaxy of stars together with Gal Gadot, Lily Collins, Salma Hayek Pinault, Gillian Anderson, Paris Hilton, Edward Norton, Olivia Wilde, Rob Lowe, tennis nice Maria Sharapova, Jessica Chastain, Danny DeVito, Seth Rogen, Jeremy Robust and the Chainsmokers.
Perry and Sia carried out.
For his or her half, Perry, Sánchez and King will take off on a Blue Origin NS-31 rocket flight, together with former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
Making science much more trendy, the group seems collectively on the brand new cowl of Elle.
