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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - NOVEMBER 08: Physicist Takaaki Kajita attends the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center on November 8, 2015 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by C Flanigan/Getty Images)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - NOVEMBER 08:  Physicist Takaaki Kajita attends the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center on November 8, 2015 in Mountain View, California.  (Photo by C Flanigan/Getty Images)