Shaw Prize

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The Shaw Prize is established by Sir Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫 1907–), a leader in the media industry in Hong Kong and a long-time philanthropist, to, in the official words, honor "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 prize is divided into the Prize in Astronomy, the Prize in Life Science and Medicine, and the Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Each prize is awarded annually in the amount of US $1,000,000.

1 List of recipients
2 External link

[edit] List of recipients

[edit] Astronomy

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2004	P. James E. Peebles (cosmology)

2005	Geoffrey Marcy & Michel Mayor

2006	Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, & Brian Schmidt (Discovery of Cosmic Acceleration and Dark or Vacuum Energy)

[edit] Life Science and Medicine

2004 Prize One	Stanley N. Cohen & Herbert W. Boyer (DNA cloning) Kan Yuet-wai (簡悅威) (DNA polymorphism)
2004 Prize Two	Sir Richard Doll (cancer epidemiology)

2005	Michael Berridge (calcium signalling)

2006	Wang Xiaodong (biochemical basis of programmed cell death)

[edit] Mathematical Sciences

2004	Chern Shiing-shen (陳省身 1911–2004) (differential geometry)

2005	Andrew John Wiles (Proof of Fermat's last theorem)

2006	David Mumford & Wu Wentsun

[edit] External link

The Shaw Prize's official website

Shaw Prize
Astronomy 2004: Peebles 2005: Marcy, Mayor 2006: Perlmutter, Riess, Schmidt Life Science and Medicine 2004: Prize 1: Cohen, Boyer, Kan Prize 2: Doll 2005: Berridge 2006: Wang Mathematical Sciences 2004: Chern 2005: Wiles 2006: Mumford, Wu