18 year-old Ryan Chester, who created a quirky video explaining Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, won the inaugural 'Breakthrough Junior Challenge' on Sunday.

Chester will be awarded $250,000 towards his college education, $50,000 for his Physics teacher Rick Nestoff and $100,000 towards the construction of a new science lab in his school.

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The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is a teen-focused counterpart of the Breakthrough Prize, which typically awards $3 million to an array of people who are making positive changes in the world of math, life sciences and physics. The awards for both the Breakthough and the Breakthrough Junior are awarded annually, The awards ceremony for this year was held in San Jose, California on Sunday. 

It was announced that Ian Agol of University of California, Berkley won the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics and was awarded $3 million for his work.  While Edward Boyden of MIT, Karl Deisseroth of Stanford Univerity and Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology were all awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and were also awarded $3 million each.

Yuri Miler, one of the founders of the awards body, said "This years winners have all opened up a way of how we understand ourselves, they are making fundamental discoveries about the universe, these fields of investigation are advancing at such a fast pace, yet the biggest questions are yet to be answered."

The Breakthrough Prize is the brainchild of Google founder Sergey Brin, his wife Anne Wojciki; Russian entrepreneurs Yuri and Julia Milner as well as Alibaba founders Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang as well as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.

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