{"id":95939,"date":"2019-09-08T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/caltech-faculty-honored-with-breakthrough-and-new-horizons-prizes"},"modified":"2019-09-08T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:42:27","slug":"caltech-faculty-honored-with-breakthrough-and-new-horizons-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/caltech-faculty-honored-with-breakthrough-and-new-horizons-prizes","title":{"rendered":"Caltech Faculty Honored with Breakthrough and New Horizons Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/caltech-faculty-honored-with-breakthrough-and-new-horizons-prizes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caltech\u2019s Katherine L. (Katie) Bouman has been named a recipient of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics as part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team that generated the first-ever image of a black hole, while Xie Chen and Xinwen Zhu have each received 2020 New Horizons prizes from the same foundation for their work in physics and mathematics, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Breakthrough Prize, now in its eighth year, is considered the world\u2019s most generous science prize. Each Breakthrough Prize is $3 million and the 347 authors of the six EHT papers will divide the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was stunned and absolutely thrilled to hear the news,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/eas.caltech.edu\/people\/klbouman\">Bouman<\/a>, assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences and Rosenberg Scholar in Caltech\u2019s Division of Engineering and Applied Science. \u201cI\u2019m so lucky to work with an amazingly talented group of individuals that continues to push the boundaries of science every day. It is such a privilege and an honor to share this award with each one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caltech\u2019s Katherine L. (Katie) Bouman has been named a recipient of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics as part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team that generated the first-ever image of a black hole, while Xie Chen and Xinwen Zhu have each received 2020 New Horizons prizes from the same foundation for their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-engineering","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}