Breakthrough Prize 2015: Star-studded ceremony honours top scientists

Top scientists were honoured at a star-studded ceremony in San Francisco on Sunday (8 November) evening. The Breakthrough Prize Organization awarded $21.9m (£15m) to the best life scientists, physicists and mathematicians, as well as one outstanding high school student. "When I became a scientist, nothing in my life had prepared me for the intense thrill of those experiments that reveal something new, that they're a start of a scientific story so rewarding to tell," said Helen Hobbs, one o