Photos: Celebrities and tech giants out for Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

iMOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg poses for a photograph with his wife Priscilla Chan on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Actor Edward Norton and his wife Shauna Robertson pose for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3:Actress Drew Barrymore poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Singer Lenny Kravitz poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: James Corden poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Singer Lenny Kravitz and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shake hands on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Singer Katharine McPhee poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Actress Allison Janney poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Singer Rachel Zhang poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Actor LeVar Burton poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Kara McCullough, winner of Miss USA 2017 and a nuclear physicist, poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Nicole Lacob poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Golden State Warriors majority owner Joe Lacob and his wife Nicole Lacob pose for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Julia Milner and Yuri Milner pose for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Sergey Brin, right, and his wife Nicole Shanahan pose for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Actress Taraji P. Henson poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
iMOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan pose for a picture on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Model adriana lima poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Model Tyra Banks poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Brian Glazer and Veronica Smiley pose for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Model Karlie Kloss poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Marissa Mayer poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: James Corden poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Singer Lenny Kravitz poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Janet Napolitano poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Jeffery Chen, 17-year old Burlingame high school senior, winner of the Breakthrough Junior Challenge poses for a pictures before the Breakthrough Prize Awards the in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of Stanford University, poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 3: Dr. Emmy Murphy, from Northwestern University, winner of the 2020 New Horizons Prize in Mathematics Prize, poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)

By Nhat Meyer | nmeyer@bayareanewsgroup.com and Erin Woo

PUBLISHED: November 3, 2019 at 8:10 p.m. | UPDATED: November 4, 2019 at 3:13 a.m.

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Celebrities, actors, models and singers mingled with scientists for the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony. NASA Ames Research Center hosted the awards in a structure just a few feet from Hanger One.

The Breakthrough Prize awards $22 million in prize money to researchers in math, physics and life science. The honorees are celebrated with a star-studded red carpet gala at NASA Ames, designed to create a cultural shift by treating scientists like celebrities. The hope is that their groundbreaking contributions will receive the type of recognition bestowed on movie stars, athletes and rock music legends.

The prizes were conceived by theoretical physicist and entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who founded the Breakthrough Prize Foundation in 2012. Milner and his wife, Julia fund the awards, along with Chinese entrepreneur Ma Huateng and several Silicon Valley tech titans: Anne Wojcicki, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.