Shaw Prize

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Shaw Prize
A gold circular medal with a depiction of an elderly man with glasses wearing a jacket buttoned to the neck; the English words "The Shaw Prize" and Chinese characters "邵逸夫獎" engraved on it
The obverse of the Shaw Prize medal
Reward USD$1.2 million
First awarded 2004
Official website [1]
Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian P. Schmidt (from left to right) jointly won the 2006 astronomy prize

The Shaw Prize is an annual award presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong,[1] it honours

"individuals who are currently active in their respective fields and who have recently achieved distinguished and significant advances, who have made outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research or applications, or who in other domains have achieved excellence. The award is dedicated to furthering societal progress, enhancing quality of life, and enriching humanity's spiritual civilization."[2]

The prize has been described as the "Nobel of the East".[3][4][5][6] It was founded by Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫).[7]

Award

The prize consists of three awards in the fields of astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences; it is not awarded posthumously. Nominations are submitted by invited individuals beginning each year in September. Winners are announced in the summer and receive the award at a ceremony in early autumn. Each award consists of a gold medal, a certificate and USD$1.2 million (USD$1 million before 2015). The front of the medal bears a portrait of Shaw and the name of the prize in English and Traditional Chinese characters; the back bears the year, category, laureate's name and a quotation from the Chinese philosopher Xunzi "制天命而用之" (translated to English as "Grasp the law of nature and make use of it").[8]

As of 2022, there have been 99 Shaw Laureates.[9] 16 Nobel laureates - Jules A. Hoffmann, Bruce Beutler, Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, Shinya Yamanaka, Robert Lefkowitz , Brian Schmidt, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor, Reinhard Genzel, and David Julius - are Shaw Laureates. The inaugural laureate of the Shaw Prize in Astronomy was Jim Peebles, honored for his contributions to cosmology. Two inaugural prizes were awarded for the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine: Stanley Norman Cohen, Herbert Boyer and Yuet Wai Kan jointly won one of them for their research in DNA while physiologist Richard Doll won the other for his contribution to cancer epidemiology. Shiing-Shen Chern was awarded the inaugural Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work on differential geometry.

Shaw Laureates

Astronomy

Year Portrait Laureate[a] Country[b] Rationale[c]
2004 100px P. James E. Peebles  United States For his groundbreaking contribution to cosmology. He laid the foundations for almost all modern investigations in cosmology, both theoretical and observational, transforming a highly speculative field into a precision science.[10][11]
2005 100px Geoffrey Marcy  United States For finding and characterizing the orbits and masses of the first planets around other stars, thereby revolutionizing our understanding of the processes that form planets and planetary systems.[12][13]
100px Michel Mayor   Switzerland
2006 100px Saul Perlmutter  United States For discovering that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, implying in the simplest interpretation that the energy density of space is non-vanishing even in the absence of any matter and radiation.[14][15]
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Adam Riess  United States
Brian Schmidt.jpg Brian Schmidt  Australia
2007 PeterGoldreich1980.jpg Peter Goldreich  United States In recognition of his lifetime achievements in theoretical astrophysics and planetary sciences.[16][17]
2008 100px Reinhard Genzel  Germany In recognition of his outstanding contributions in demonstrating that the Milky Way contains a supermassive black hole at its centre.[18][19]
2009 Frank Hsia-San Shu, the Fellow of Academia Sinica.JPG Frank H. Shu (徐遐生)  United States In recognition of his outstanding life-time contributions in theoretical astronomy.[20][21]
2010 100px Charles L. Bennett  United States For their leadership of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) experiment, which has enabled precise determinations of the fundamental cosmological parameters, including the geometry, age and composition of the universe.[22][23]
LymanPage1.JPG Lyman A. Page Jr.  United States
David N. Spergel  United States
2011 Enrico Costa  Italy For their leadership of space missions that enabled the demonstration of the cosmological origin of gamma ray bursts, the brightest sources known in the universe.[24][25]
Gerald J. Fishman  United States
2012 David Jewitt.jpg David Jewitt  United States For their discovery and characterization of trans-Neptunian bodies, an archeological treasure dating back to the formation of the Solar System and the long-sought source of short period comets.[26][27]
100px Jane Luu  United States
2013 100px Steven A. Balbus  United Kingdom For their discovery and study of the magnetorotational instability, and for demonstrating that this instability leads to turbulence and is a viable mechanism for angular momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks.[28][29]
John F. Hawley  United States
2014 Daniel Eisenstein  United States For their contributions to the measurements of features in the large-scale structure of galaxies used to constrain the cosmological model including baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions.[30][31]
Shaun Cole  United Kingdom
100px John A. Peacock  United Kingdom
2015 100px William J. Borucki  United States For his conceiving and leading the Kepler Mission, which greatly advanced knowledge of both extrasolar planetary systems and stellar interiors.[32][33]
2016 100px Ronald W. P. Drever  United Kingdom For conceiving and designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose recent direct detection of gravitational waves opens a new window in astronomy, with the first remarkable discovery being the merger of a pair of stellar mass black holes.[34][35]
100px Kip S. Thorne  United States
100px Rainer Weiss  United States
2017 100px Simon D. M. White  Germany For his contributions to understanding structure formation in the Universe. With powerful numerical simulations he has shown how small density fluctuations in the early Universe develop into galaxies and other nonlinear structures, strongly supporting a cosmology with a flat geometry, and dominated by dark matter and a cosmological constant.[36][37]
2018 Jean-Loup Puget  France For his contributions to astronomy in the infrared to submillimetre spectral range. He detected the cosmic far-infrared background from past star-forming galaxies, and proposed aromatic hydrocarbon molecules as a constituent of interstellar matter. With the Planck space mission, he has dramatically advanced our knowledge of cosmology in the presence of interstellar matter foregrounds.[38][39]
2019 100px Edward C. Stone  United States For his leadership in the Voyager project, which has, over the past four decades, transformed our understanding of the four giant planets and the outer Solar System, and has now begun to explore interstellar space.[40][41]
2020 100px Roger D. Blandford  United States For his foundational contributions to theoretical astrophysics, especially concerning the fundamental understanding of active galactic nuclei, the formation and collimation of relativistic jets, the energy extraction mechanism from black holes, and the acceleration of particles in shocks and their relevant radiation mechanisms.[42][43]
2021 Victoria M. Kaspi  Canada For their contributions to our understanding of magnetars, a class of highly magnetized neutron stars that are linked to a wide range of spectacular, transient astrophysical phenomena. Through the development of new and precise observational techniques, they confirmed the existence of neutron stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields and characterized their physical properties. Their work has established magnetars as a new and important class of astrophysical objects.[44][45]
433663main Chryssa Kouveliotou.jpg Chryssa Kouveliotou  United States
2022 100px Lennart Lindegren  Sweden For their lifetime contributions to space astrometry, and in particular for their role in the conception and design of the European Space Agency’s Hipparcos and Gaia missions.[46][47]
Michael Perryman  Ireland

Life science and medicine

Year Portrait Laureate[a] Country[b] Rationale[c]
2004[d] 100px Stanley N. Cohen  United States For their discoveries on DNA cloning and genetic engineering.[11][48]
100px Herbert W. Boyer  United States
Yuet-Wai Kan  United States For his discoveries on DNA polymorphism and its influence on human genetics.[11][48]
2004[d] Richard Doll.jpg Richard Doll  United Kingdom For his contribution to modern cancer epidemiology.[11][48]
2005 Michael Berridge  United Kingdom For his discoveries on calcium signalling in the regulation of cellular activity.[49][50]
2006 Xiaodong Wang  United States For his discovery of the biochemical basis of programmed cell death, a vital process that balances cell birth and defends against cancer.[51][52]
2007 100px Robert Lefkowitz  United States For his relentless elucidation of the major receptor system that mediates the response of cells and organs to drugs and hormones.[53][54]
2008[e] 100px Keith H. S. Campbell  United Kingdom 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.[55][56]
100px Ian Wilmut  United Kingdom
100px Shinya Yamanaka  Japan
2009 Douglas L. Coleman  United States For their work leading to the discovery of leptin, a hormone that regulates food intake and body weight.[57][58]
100px Jeffrey M. Friedman  United States
2010 100px David Julius  United States For his seminal discoveries of molecular mechanisms by which the skin senses painful stimuli and temperature and produces pain hypersensitivity.[59][60]
2011 100px Jules A. Hoffmann  France For their discovery of the molecular mechanism of innate immunity, the first line of defense against pathogens.[61][62]
Ruslan M. Medzhitov  United States
100px Bruce A. Beutler  United States
2012 Franz-Ulrich Hartl  Germany For their contributions to the understanding of the molecular mechanism of protein folding. Proper protein folding is essential for many cellular functions.[63][64]
100px Arthur L. Horwich  United States
2013 100px Jeffrey C. Hall  United States For their discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms.[65][66]
100px Michael Rosbash  United States
100px Michael W. Young  United States
2014 100px Kazutoshi Mori  Japan For their discovery of the Unfolded Protein Response of the endoplasmic reticulum, a cell signalling pathway that controls organelle homeostasis and quality of protein export in eukaryotic cells.[67][68]
100px Peter Walter  United States
2015 100px Bonnie L. Bassler  United States For elucidating the molecular mechanism of quorum sensing, a process whereby bacteria communicate with each other and which offers innovative ways to interfere with bacterial pathogens or to modulate the microbiome for health applications.[69][70]
E. Peter Greenberg  United States
2016 100px Adrian P. Bird  United Kingdom For their discovery of the genes and the encoded proteins that recognize one chemical modification of the DNA of chromosomes that influences gene control as the basis of the developmental disorder Rett syndrome.[71][72]
Huda Zoghbi.jpg Huda Y. Zoghbi  United States
2017 100px Ian R. Gibbons  United States For their discovery of microtubule-associated motor proteins: engines that power cellular and intracellular movements essential to the growth, division, and survival of human cells.[73][74]
100px Ronald D. Vale  United States
2018 100px Mary-Claire King  United States For her mapping the first breast cancer gene. Using mathematical modeling, King predicted and then demonstrated that breast cancer can be caused by a single gene. She mapped the gene which facilitated its cloning and has saved thousands of lives.[75][76]
2019 Maria Jasin  United States For her work showing that localized double strand breaks in DNA stimulate recombination in mammalian cells. This seminal work was essential for and led directly to the tools enabling editing at specific sites in mammalian genomes.[77][78]
2020 100px Gero Miesenböck  Austria For the development of optogenetics, a technology that has revolutionized neuroscience.[79][80]
100px Peter Hegemann  Germany
100px Georg Nagel  Germany
2021 100px Scott D. Emr  United States For the landmark discovery of the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport) pathway, which is essential in diverse processes involving membrane biology, including cell division, cell-surface receptor regulation, viral dissemination, and nerve axon pruning. These processes are central to life, health and disease.[81][82]
2022 Paul A. Negulescu  United States For landmark discoveries of the molecular, biochemical, and functional defects underlying cystic fibrosis and the identification and development of medicines that reverse those defects and can treat most people affected by this disorder. Together, these discoveries and medicines are alleviating human suffering and saving lives.[83][84]
Michael J. Welsh  United States

Mathematical sciences

Year Portrait Laureate[a] Country[b] Rationale[c]
2004 100px Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身)  China For his initiation of the field of global differential geometry and his continued leadership of the field, resulting in beautiful developments that are at the centre of contemporary mathematics, with deep connections to topology, algebra and analysis, in short, to all major branches of mathematics of the last sixty years.[85][86]
2005 Andrew wiles1-3.jpg Andrew John Wiles  United Kingdom For his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.[87][88]
2006 100px David Mumford  United States For David Mumford's contributions to mathematics, and to the new interdisciplinary fields of pattern theory and vision research; and for Wentsun Wu's contributions to the new interdisciplinary field of mathematics mechanization.[89][90]
100px Wentsun Wu (吳文俊)  China
2007 100px Robert Langlands  United States For initiating and developing a grand unifying vision of mathematics that connects prime numbers with symmetry.[91][92]
Richard Taylor (mathematician).jpg Richard Taylor  United Kingdom
2008 Vladimir Arnold-1.jpg Vladimir Arnold  Russia For their widespread and influential contributions to Mathematical Physics.[93][94]
100px Ludwig Faddeev  Russia
2009 Simon Donaldson.jpg Simon K. Donaldson  United Kingdom For their many brilliant contributions to geometry in 3 and 4 dimensions.[95][96]
Clifford H. Taubes  United States
2010 100px Jean Bourgain  United States For his profound work in mathematical analysis and its application to partial differential equations, mathematical physics, combinatorics, number theory, ergodic theory and theoretical computer science.[97][98]
2011 100px Demetrios Christodoulou   Switzerland For their highly innovative works on nonlinear partial differential equations in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry and their applications to general relativity and topology.[99][100]
100px Richard S. Hamilton  United States
2012 MaximKontsevich.jpg Maxim Kontsevich  France For his pioneering works in algebra, geometry and mathematical physics and in particular deformation quantization, motivic integration and mirror symmetry.[101][102]
2013 100px David L. Donoho  United States For his profound contributions to modern mathematical statistics and in particular the development of optimal algorithms for statistical estimation in the presence of noise and of efficient techniques for sparse representation and recovery in large data-sets.[103][104]
2014 George Lusztig  United States For his fundamental contributions to algebra, algebraic geometry, and representation theory, and for weaving these subjects together to solve old problems and reveal beautiful new connections.[105][106]
2015 100px Gerd Faltings  Germany For their introduction and development of fundamental tools in number theory, allowing them as well as others to resolve some longstanding classical problems.[107][108]
100px Henryk Iwaniec  United States
2016 100px Nigel J. Hitchin  United Kingdom For his far-reaching contributions to geometry, representation theory and theoretical physics. The fundamental and elegant concepts and techniques that he has introduced have had wide impact and are of lasting importance.[109][110]
2017 János Kollár  United States For their remarkable results in many central areas of algebraic geometry, which have transformed the field and led to the solution of long-standing problems that had appeared out of reach.[111][112]
ClaireVoisinBMC2014.JPG Claire Voisin  France
2018 Luis A. Caffarelli  United States For his groundbreaking work on partial differential equations, including creating a theory of regularity for nonlinear equations such as the Monge-Ampère equation, and free-boundary problems such as the obstacle problem, work that has influenced a whole generation of researchers in the field.[113][114]
2019 100px Michel Talagrand  France For his work on concentration inequalities, on suprema of stochastic processes and on rigorous results for spin glasses.[115][116]
2020 100px Alexander Beilinson  United States For their huge influence on and profound contributions to representation theory, as well as many other areas of mathematics.[117][118]
100px David Kazhdan  Israel
2021 100px Jean-Michel Bismut  France For their remarkable insights that have transformed, and continue to transform, modern geometry.[119][120]
Jeff Cheeger  United States
2022 Noga Alon (22-03-2008).jpg Noga Alon  United States For their remarkable contributions to discrete mathematics and model theory with interaction notably with algebraic geometry, topology and computer sciences.[121][122]
100px Ehud Hrushovski  United Kingdom

Notes

See also

References

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