Breakthrough Prize Inaugural Ceremony - Arrivals

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - DECEMBER 12: Breakthrough Prize Winners (L-R) Mahlon DeLong, Emory University for defining the interlocking circuits in the brain that malfunction in Parkinson's disease; Andrew Strominger, Harvard University; Richard Lifton, Yale University; Michael Hall, University of Basel for the discovery of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) and its role in cell growth control; Alexander Varshavsky, California Institute of Technology for discovering critical molecular determinants and biological functions of intracellular protein degradation; James Allison, MD Anderson Cancer Center for the discovery of T cell checkpoint blockade as effective cancer therapy; Robert Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for discoveries leading to the development of controlled drug-release systems and new biomaterials; John Schwarz, California Institute of Technology, for opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces; Michael B. Green, University of Cambridge, for opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces; Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University; and Joseph Polchinski, University of California, Santa Barbara and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics pose for a photo during the Breakthrough Prize Inaugural Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center on December 12, 2013 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Trisha Leeper/WireImage)