2023 and 2024 Breakthrough Prize Winners: Pioneering Physicists, Life Scientists, and Mathematicians

Physicists John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov, who contributed to the theory of statistical physics and quantum field theory, and immunologists Carl June and Michel Sadelain, who pioneered genetically engineered immune cells for cancer treatment, are among the winners of the 2023 Breakthrough prize. The prize also recognizes a team studying Parkinson's disease genetics and a trio of scientists who identified drugs to repair defective proteins in cystic fibrosis patients. The mathematics prize went to Simon Brendle for his contributions to differential geometry.