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[11/03/15 - 09:56 AM]
Ten-Time Grammy Award Winner Pharrell Williams to Perform at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on November 8
Plus: Russell Crowe, Hilary Swank, Lily Collins, Thomas Middleditch and Martin Starr have signed on as presenters.
[via press release from National Geographic Channel]

TEN-TIME GRAMMY AWARD WINNER PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PERFORM AT THE BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE CEREMONY ON NOVEMBER 8

Presenters Russell Crowe, Hilary Swank, Lily Collins and Thomas Middleditch and Martin Starr of HBO's Silicon Valley to Join Host Seth MacFarlane to Honor the World's Leading Scientists and Mathematicians

The Breakthrough Prize Ceremony will be broadcast live on the National Geographic Channel at 10/9c

SAN FRANCISCO - November 3, 2015 - 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-founders 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.

About Breakthrough Prize

Founded in 2012 by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, Yuri Milner and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, the Breakthrough Prize is an annual award honoring the outstanding achievements in life sciences, physics and mathematics. The prizes aim to celebrate scientists and generate excitement about the pursuit of science as a career. Laureates of all prizes are chosen by selection committees, which comprise prior prize recipients. The Breakthrough Prizes are funded by a grant from Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki's foundation, The Brin Wojcicki Foundation; a grant from Mark Zuckerberg's fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; a grant from the Jack Ma Foundation; and a grant from the Milner Foundation. Additional information on the Breakthrough Prize is available at www.breakthroughprize.org.





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