Tag: Research Prizes

• You Know What’s Cool? $3 million

  In science it is, anyway. As Eric S. Lander– one of the eleven winners of the first Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences – explains, this is a “staggering” amount of money for a scientist. Lander is a leader of the Human Genome Project, and in an interview quoted in the New York Times he told…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  February 22, 2013

  2–4 minutes