November 11, 2015
Karsten Heeger (Professor of Physics) was part of the SNO, KamLAND, and Daya Bay collaborations which were part of several collaborations that won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The Breakthrough Prizes are sponsored by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki (Yale B.S. in Biology 1996), Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang. They honor important achievements in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics. For more information see links below.