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In April 2020, Milner Foundation announced a donation of 3 million face masks for people of Israel. Yuri Milner in his open letter published by Calcalist wrote that “a significant fraction of these masks will go to organizations providing essential services, whose frontline workers are still required to do their jobs during the lockdown”.
Yuri graduated from university in 1985 with an advanced degree in theoretical physics and subsequently conducted research in quantum field theory, before going to the United States to study at Wharton School of Business. After becoming convinced that internet was the future of investment, Yuri founded Mail. ru Group in 1999; and under his ...
May 26, 2016 · Breakthrough Initiatives >. Last month, Russian internet billionaire Yuri Milner announced plans to send thousands of tiny spacecraft to visit Alpha Centauri, the closest star system at 4.4 light-years from Earth. Dubbed Breakthrough Starshot, the mission aims to take close-up images and collect data from any potentially habitable planets there.
Yuri began his career as a theoretical physicist, and science remains his great passion. In 2012 he and his wife Julia, together with Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, and Anne Wojcicki, launched the Breakthrough Prizes – the world’s largest scientific awards, honoring important, primarily recent, achievements in Fundamental ...
Apr 12, 2016 · “The human story is one of great leaps,” Milner said in a statement released shortly before the announcement. “55 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
Apr 21, 2016 · Yuri Milner is something of a visionary. He sees that while there are many good causes and pressing problems, ultimately our chances of thriving as a species depend on tending and feeding the ...
Nov 10, 2017 · Dozens of people—scientists, astronauts, and also a producer, a chess champ, and a soprano—signed the note, which kicked off a $100 million effort by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner to catch ...
