The
Breakthrough Prize
today announced that ten-time Grammy Award winner Pharrell Williams will perform at its third annual
Breakthrough Prize
ceremony, held to honor the world’s top scientists and mathematicians, on Sunday, November 8 in Silicon Valley.Williams will be joined at the exclusive ceremony by a star-studded lineup of presenters, including Academy Award winner Russell Crowe, Academy Award winner Hilary Swank, Lily Collins, and Thomas Middleditch and Martin Starr of HBO’s Silicon Valley. As previously announced,
Emmy-nominated Cosmos
executive producer and
Family Guy
creator Seth MacFarlane will serve as the ceremony’s host.The
Breakthrough Prize
ceremony is hosted by
co-founder
s Sergey Brin (Google) and Anne Wojcicki (23andMe), Jack Ma (Alibaba) and Cathy Zhang, Yuri Milner (DST Global) and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Priscilla Chan, along with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.The ceremony will be produced and directed by Emmy Award-winning Don Mischer Productions and will be broadcast live on
National Geographic Channel
at 10/9c, with a one-hour version of the ceremony scheduled for FOX on Sunday, Nov. 29, at 7-8 p.m.
ET/PT. Additionally, the one-hour version will air globally on the
National Geographic Channel
in 171 countries and 45 languages.The
Breakthrough Prize
honors those at the forefront of the fundamental physics, life sciences and mathematics fields, and will honor the recipient of the inaugural
Breakthrough Junior Challenge
.
Each of the
Breakthrough Prize
laureates receives a $3 million prize, and a total of seven prizes will be awarded. This year, for the first time, the ceremony will also feature the
Breakthrough Junior Challenge
for students, which will award $400,000 in educational prizes to a student whose original video brings to life a scientific or mathematical idea or principle.
