Scientists get the Hollywood treatment!

Higgs event Monday night on the Science Channel, the Breakthrough Prizes are having their USA television debut!

Preview and clips at http://tinyurl.com/peo97q3

Hosted by Kevin Spacey, the show hands out seven $3 million prizes, and honors physicists Joseph Polchinski, Andrew Strominger, Cumrun Vafa, John H. Schwarz and Michael B. Green, as well as leading medical researchers James P. Allison, Mahlon R. DeLong, Michael N. Hall, Robert Langer, Richard Lifton and Alexander Varshavsky.

Helping to celebrate the scientists are celebrities Conan O’Brien, Anna Kendrick, Glenn Close, Rob Lowe, Michael C. Hall, as well as tech leaders Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki, Jimmy Wales and Yuri Milner.

The show is at 9:00ET/PT, 8:00CT, 7:00MT.

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