Laureates

• Breakthrough Prize
• Special Breakthrough Prize
• New Horizons Prize
• Vera Rubin New Frontiers Prize
• Physics Frontiers Prize

• 2026
• 2025
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2016
• 2013

A Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to 1015 scientists and engineers contributing to the detection of gravitational waves announced in February of 2016.

• Ronald W. P. Drever and the LIGO Contributors
• Kip S. Thorne and the LIGO Contributors
• Rainer Weiss and the LIGO Contributors