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Monday, November 9, 2015
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Monday, November 9, 2015
Russian-Jewish billionaire gives out $22m in science prizes
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRussian-Jewish billionaire Yuri Milner gives out nearly $22 million in Breakthrough Prize Awards for contributions to life sciences, math and physics.
Milner was joined Sunday night at a televised ceremony in Northern California’s Silicon Valley by prize co-founders Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, and his ex-wife, Anne Wojcicki; Alibaba founder Jack Ma and his wife, Cathy Zhang; and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.
The prize was established three years ago in an effort to make the sciences more popular.
— JTA
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