The Second Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane and will be cohosted by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter along with the ceremony's founders. The event took place in Silicon Valley on Nov. 9. The exclusive ceremony will be aired on Discovery and Science Channels on Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. ET/PT. It will also be internationally aired on BBC World News on Nov. 22.
Among the award presenters at the Annual Breakthrough Prize include Kate Beckinsale, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Diaz, Jon Hamm and Eddie Redmayne while Vanity Fair's editor will cohost the exclusive event. As said by Broadway World, the event is to honor the world's top scientists and mathematicians.
During the ceremony, singer Christina Aguilera performed an outstanding rendition of her hit song, "Beautiful."
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation said the event is to celebrate the exceptional contributions of the world's greatest scientists. As stated by the Breakthrough Prize Organization, the foundation paid tribute to the world's most brilliant intellectuals which were taking the biggest leaps toward the treatment of diseases, building new technologies and bringing better understanding of the universe's nature.
The Second Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony was produced by Vanity Fair and Don Mischer Productions. Several high-level individuals from the worlds of technology, business, entertainment and academia graced the exclusive event at the Hangar 1 of NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
As said by the foundation, a total of 14 scientists will be honored at the Second Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony. The laureates in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics will receive a total of $36 million award prize. According to CNBC, attendees and honorees alike commended the event for succeeding in its pursuit of bringing science and those devoted to its cause to the top.
The prize money of the Breakthrough Prize was sponsored by Breakthrough Prize Founders Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, Yuri and Julia Milner and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. The event was hosted by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and Seth MacFarlane.
The Vanity Fair-produced Breakthrough Prize aimed to celebrate esteemed scientists and to generate enthusiasm in its quest for Science as a profession.
