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The Breakthrough of the Year is an annual award for the most significant development in scientific research made by the AAAS journal Science, an academic journal covering all branches of science. Originating in 1989 as the Molecule of the Year, and inspired by Time's Person of the Year, it was renamed the Breakthrough of the Year in 1996.
== Molecule of the Year == 1989 PCR and DNA polymerase 1990 the manufacture of synthetic diamonds 1991 buckminsterfullerene 1992 nitric oxide 1993 p53 1994 DNA repair enzyme
== Breakthrough of the Year == 1996: Understanding HIV 1997: Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from adult cells 1998: Accelerating universe 1999: Prospective stem-cell therapies 2000: Full genome sequencing 2001: Nanocircuits or Molecular circuit 2002: RNA interference 2003: Dark energy 2004: Spirit rover landed on Mars 2005: Evolution in action 2006: Proof of the Poincaré conjecture 2007: Human genetic variation 2008: Cellular reprogramming 2009: Ardipithecus ramidus 2010: The first quantum machine 2011: HIV treatment as prevention (HPTN 052) 2012: Discovery of the Higgs boson 2013: Cancer immunotherapy 2014: Rosetta comet mission 2015: CRISPR genome-editing method 2016: First observation of gravitational waves 2017: Neutron star merger (GW170817) 2018: Single-cell sequencing 2019: A black hole made visible 2020: COVID-19 vaccine, developed and tested at record speed 2021: An AI brings protein structures to all 2022: James Webb Space Telescope debut 2023: GLP-1 Drugs 2024: Lenacapavir 2025: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
== See also == Physics World – also has a Breakthrough of the Year award
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