2015 Breakthrough Prize shared by 1300 neutrino-hunting physicists

New York Times : The third annual Breakthrough Prizes were awarded over the weekend in a ceremony billed as the Oscars for science. The attendees and presenters included scientists, Hollywood celebrities, and Silicon Valley icons. The prize was established in 2012 by Yuri Milner, a physicist and venture capitalist, because he felt that theoretical physicists deserve to be treated like rock stars. This year, seven of the $3 million prizes were awarded: five in the life sciences, one in mathematics, and one in theoretical physics. There were also a $500 000 award split amongst eight early-career researchers and one $400 000 prize for a high school student. The $3 million prize for theoretical physics was awarded to the five teams of researchers—totaling more than 1300 people—working on major neutrino experiments over the last 20 years. The teams that split the award are those associated with the Super-Kamiokande in Kamioka, Japan; the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Canada; the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment in China; the KamLAND project in Toyama, Japan; and the K2K and T2K experiments in Japan.