Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg made the largest contributions in 2024, and financial aid, especially for medical students, got most of the money.

Three scientists have jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for their work on quantum information science that has significant applications, including the secure encryption of information.

A letter written by Albert Einstein in which he writes out his famous E=mc2 equation has sold at auction for more than $1.2 million, about three times more than it was expected to get.

But Paul Milgrom, a professor of Economics at Stanford University, found out he won the prestigious award while he was half asleep. pic.twitter.com/MvhxZcgutZ — Stanford University (@Stanford) October 12, 2020When Robert Wilson rang Paul Milgrom's doorbell at 2:15 this morning, Milgrom's wife, who's in Stockholm, received a security-camera notification on her phone. It’s Bob Wilson, you’ve won the Nobel Prize," Wilson says in the video. Milgrom won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize prize in Economic Sciences for “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats,” according to the committee. Learn more about Milgrom’s award by clicking here.

On Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advancing our understanding of black holes. He said our galaxy and the galaxies near us “will ultimately get swallowed by one utterly huge black hole. “If you fall into a black hole, then you pretty well inevitably get squashed into this singularity at the end. It was a black hole. Not just an ordinary black hole, but a supermassive one, 4 million times the mass of our sun.