Shaw Prize

Shaw Prize

Infobox award
name = Shaw Prize


imagesize = 200px
caption = Shaw Prize medal. Original design
description = Outstanding contributions in astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences.
presenter = The Shaw Prize Foundation, Shaw Prize Council
country = HKG
year = 2002
website = http://www.shawprize.orgThe Shaw Prize, established by Sir Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫 b. 1907), a leader in the media industry in Hong Kong and a long-time philanthropist, to honour "individuals, regardless of race, nationality and religious belief, who have achieved significant breakthrough in academic and scientific research or application, and whose work has resulted in a positive and profound impact on mankind."

The annually awarded prize purse is US$1 million.

Shaw Prize laureates

Astronomy

*2004 P. James E. Peebles – for his many contributions to cosmology
*2005 Geoffrey Marcy and Michel Mayor – for their discovery of the first extrasolar planets
*2006 Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian P. Schmidt – for their discovery of cosmic acceleration and dark- or vacuum energy
*2007 Peter Goldreich – for his work in astrophysics and Planetary sciences
*2008 Reinhard Genzel – in recognition of his outstanding contributions in demonstrating that the Milky Way contains a supermassive black hole at its centre.

Life Science and Medicine

*2004 Prize One: Stanley N. Cohen and Herbert W. Boyer – for their discoveries in DNA cloning and genetic engineering; and
Kan Yuet-wai (簡悅威) – for his discoveries in DNA polymorphism
*2004 Prize Two: Sir Richard Doll – for his work in cancer epidemiology
*2005 Michael Berridge – for his work in calcium signaling in cellular regulation
*2006 Wang Xiaodong – for his work in biochemical basis of programmed cell death
*2007 Robert Lefkowitz – for his work with G-protein coupled receptors
*2008 Keith Campbell, Sir Ian Wilmut (jointly one half) and Shinya Yamanaka (other half) – for their recent pivotal innovations in reversing the process of cell differentiation in mammals, a phenomenon which advances our knowledge of developmental biology and holds great promise for the treatment of human diseases and improvements in agriculture practices.

Mathematical Sciences

*2004 Chern Shiing-shen (陳省身) – for his initiation of the field of global differential geometry
*2005 Andrew John Wiles – for his proof of Fermat's last theorem
*2006 David Mumford – for his pattern theory and vision research; and
Wu Wenjun – for his work in the field of mathematics mechanization
*2007 Robert Langlands and Richard Taylor – for their contributions of the Langlands program connecting prime numbers with symmetry
*2008 Vladimir Arnold and Ludwig Faddeev – for their widespread and influential contributions to Mathematical Physics.

Reference

External links

* [http://www.shawprize.org The Shaw Prize official website]


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