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Selection Committees composed of previous Breakthrough Prize laureates in each field choose the winners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2026 &#8211; Muon g-2 Collaborations at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermilab (Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics), including the UW Physics Muon g-2 Team:\n<ul>\n<li>Loreto P. Alonzi, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Hannah Binney, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Svende Braun, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Christine Claessens, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Martin Fertl, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Fienberg, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Nathan Froeming, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Alejandro Garcia, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Jason Hempstead, Physics<\/li>\n<li>David W. Hertzog, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Zachary Hodge, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Peter Kammel, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Kim Siang Khaw, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Jarek Kaspar, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Joshua LaBounty, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Brynn MacCoy, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Osofsky, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Erik Swanson, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Matthias Smith, Physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2021 \u2013 Blayne Heckel, Physics (Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics)<\/li>\n<li>2021 \u2013 Eric Adelberger, Physics (Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics)<\/li>\n<li>2021 \u2013 David Baker, Biochemistry (Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>2021 \u2013 Jens H. Gundlach, Physics (Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics)<\/li>\n<li>2020 \u2013 Lukasz Fidkowski, Physics (Breakthrough Prize &#8211; New Horizons in Physics Prize)<\/li>\n<li>2016 &#8211; K2K &amp; T2K Collaborations (Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics), including UW researcher:\n<ul>\n<li>R. Jeffrey Wilkes, Physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2016 &#8211; KamLAND Collaboration (Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics), including UW researchers :\n<ul>\n<li>Jason Detwiler, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Sanshiro Enomoto, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Kazumi Tolich (Ishii), Physics<\/li>\n<li>Nikolai Tolich, Physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2016 &#8211; SNO Collaboration (Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics), including UW researchers :\n<ul>\n<li>Jason Detwiler, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Peter Doe, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Hamish Robertson, Physics<\/li>\n<li>Nikolai Tolich, Physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2016 &#8211; Super K Collaboration (Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics), including UW researcher:\n<ul>\n<li>R. 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