November 9, 2014...John Hamm attend the Breakthrough Prize Awards Ceremony Hosted By Seth MacFarlane at NASA Ames Research Center on November 9, 2014 in Mountain View, California.
They took us out to Silicon Valley. The star of the movie "The Imitation Game," Benedict Cumberbatch, was at this ceremony. The main actor from "The Theory of Everything" was there as well. (Author’s note: It’s Eddie Redmayne.) At our table was Christina Aguilera. Talk about being a kid from Cincinnati who works on chromatin and histones … It was unbelievable.
The ceremony was done like the Academy Awards. The coolest thing for me was meeting Jon Hamm. He played Don Draper in "Mad Men." My wife and I had become hooked on "Mad Men." We didn’t know when we were out there who was going to be our introducer. You know you’ve won a prize, but you certainly don’t know who’s going to introduce you. Out comes Jon Hamm and Lauren Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ widow. They were the ones who did the whole spiel on me. It was ultracool. I also got to talk remotely with Stephen Hawking.
It was a hoot to meet all these stars. The fact that Jon Hamm and Lauren Powell Jobs were there, taking pictures with me, was a crack-up. And oh, the MC for the whole gala was Seth McFarlane.
With this prize, they are trying to show that science and mathematics are cool. They treat us as they would movie stars and sports people. I give these people a lot of credit.
2015 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony: David Allis, Jon Hamm, Laurene Powell Jobs
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