The Prizes were Presented at Live Ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 10/9c on National Geographic Channel. The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics Awarded to Ian Agol; The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to Five Individual Recipients: Edward S. Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, John Hardy, Helen Hobbs, and Svante Pääbo; The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Seven Lea