Awarding ceremony of 2018 Breakthrough Prize held in San Francisco

James McKernan from the University of California, San Diego attends the awarding ceremony of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in San Francisco, the United States, on Dec. 3, 2017. The Breakthrough Prize Foundation on Sunday announced here the winners of the 2018 Breakthrough Prizes in fundamental physics, life sciences and mathematics, together with several other prizes to encourage young scientists. The foundation awarded the prize in mathematics to Christopher Hacon from the University of Utah, and James McKernan from the University of California, San Diego, to recognize their major advances in the field as the best mathematicians in the world. (Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling)