9 award-winning scientists have a bigger prize than the Nobel Prize

The award honors scientists with pioneering research in many fields.

Recently, 9 scientists have won Kavli awards with a value of greater than the Nobel Prize - $ 1 million for their groundbreaking research.

Kavli is a noble award awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, the Kavli Foundation and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.

The award is to honor the groundbreaking studies of astrophysics (our cosmic research), nanotechnology (very small things research), and neuroscience (research about the human brain).

9 scientists received the Kavli prize.

This year's Kavli astrophysics award was given to Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, and Rainer Weiss. The trio discovered the waves - time or gravitational waves - the most remarkable scientific achievements of the year, even in the last century.

This finding has for the first time confirmed the validity of Einstein's general theory of relativity for very large objects such as black holes. Two black holes colliding with each other will release a huge mass of energy in the form of gravitational waves.

In terms of nanotechnology, Gerd Binnig, Christoph Gerber and Calvin Quate were awarded awards for inventions of atomic force microscopes , a breakthrough in imaging technology that enables single atomic visible at one time. . Binnig also won the Nobel Prize in 1986 for another microscopic technique.

Eve Marder, Michael Merzenich and Carla Shatz won the prize in neuroscience for their studies of the functional mechanisms of brain models and elucidated how the brain changes throughout life.

Since its founding in 2008, the Kavli Prize has honored scientists with pioneering research in the theory of cosmic expansion, improved microscopes and the discovery of a specific brain network.