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A-listers came retired for nan yearly “Oscars of science” — nan Breakthrough Prize ceremonial — connected Saturday nighttime wherever stars and scientists aligned.
Anne Hathaway, Robert Downey Jr., Zoe Saldana, Ben Affleck, Paris Hilton, Margot Robbie, Lionel Ritchie, Michelle Yeoh, Rob Lowe, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Jessica Chastain, Christina Aguilera, Gal Gadot, head Ron Howard and Olivia Wilde were among nan A-list attendees stepping nan reddish carpet to observe nan dazzling achievements of science’s top minds.
Hathaway and Wilde warmly embraced connected nan carpet while chatting pinch different attendees waiting to airs for photographers.
Hilton — who was pinch her husband, Carter Reum — stopped to show Page Six that she was looking guardant to nan evening and celebrating nan winners.
Also attending were stars including Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup, exemplary Miranda Kerr and Snapchat billionaire Evan Spiegel, vocalist Jewel, Oscar Isaac, Lily Collins, Gigi Hadid, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek and her billionaire hubby François-Henri Pinault, rocker Adam Levine, head Darren Aronofsky, Michelle Williams and shaper Brian Grazer, among galore more.
The Breakthrough Prize celebrates nan investigation achievements of nan world’s apical scientists, and nan gala awards much than $15 cardinal successful prizes annually. Each Breakthrough Prize is $3 million, and presented successful nan fields of Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics.
As for Yeoh, she told reporters she was inspired by nan night’s honored scientists and their work to mankind. The “Wicked” prima explained she was nan astir intrigued by artificial intelligence, and still had questions astir really it evolved and wherever it will get us. (We spot she had a chance to inquire 1 of her brainy tablemates.)
“Hello” hitmaker Richie recalled that he (briefly) pondered a life extracurricular of euphony — telling reporters that if he could study immoderate technological topic, “It wouldn’t beryllium physics,” he joked. “I for illustration plants. Lots of plants.”
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates besides made an quality and smiled while making his measurement down nan carpet astatine Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar, while further tech moguls included Apple’s Tim Cook and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
Genius chess icon Magnus Carlsen was besides spotted, arsenic was Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Waymo’s Tekedra Mawakana, VC whiz Marc Andreessen and Dell CEO Michael Dell.
“Wuthering Heights” prima Robbie made a low-key presence pinch her husband, shaper Tom Ackerley.
Star mates Legend and Tiegen unopen down nan carpet by arriving fashionably precocious conscionable successful clip for nan VIP dinner.
The Breakthrough Prize was founded by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Sergey Brin, Julia and Yuri Milner and Anne Wojcicki.
Past attendees person included Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Drew Barrymore, Lizzo, Will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Jodie Foster and galore more.
Winners connected Saturday nighttime hailed from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Princeton University, nan University of Pennsylvania, nan University of Chicago, MIT, NYU, Columbia University, Oxford, Duke, Caltech, nan University of California, Santa Barbara, and more.
