At the Breakthrough Prizes, Silicon Valley Puts Scientists in the Spotlight
At the Breakthrough Prizes, Silicon Valley Puts Scientists in the Spotlight
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 4, 20178m 26s
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Show Notes
Every year in December, a makeshift hangar at the NASA Ames Research Center pops up for one night, transforming the austere airfield into a glitzy, paparazzi’d, black velvet-roped Nerd Prom. At the Breakthrough Prizes—where on December 3, a total of $22 million was handed out to pioneers in math, physics, and the life sciences—researchers traded lab coats and latex gloves for floor-length gowns and bow-tied tuxedos.
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