Actress Lily Collins presents UC Santa Barbara’s David J. Gross with the 2026 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics during the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in Santa Monica, California. (Credit: Lester Cohen/Getty Images Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize)

During a star-studded annual gala on Saturday, April 18, two UC Berkeley faculty members, a UCLA physicist and a UC Santa Barbara Nobel laureate were awarded prizes by the Breakthrough Foundation, honoring their incredible contributions to advancing science.

Popularly known as the “Oscars^® of Science,” the Breakthrough Prizes were created to fete remarkable scientists with a level of celebrity and glamour usually reserved for Hollywood stars.

Read the whole story at the UC Newsroom

You can also watch a two-and-a-half-minute highlight video below:

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