Shaw Prize
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| Shaw Prize | |
 Shaw Prize medal. Original design |
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| Awarded for | Outstanding contributions in astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences. |
| Presented by | The Shaw Prize Foundation, Shaw Prize Council |
| Country |  Hong Kong |
| First awarded | 2004 |
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The 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 prize was established in 2002 and the first prize presentation was in 2004.
The annually awarded prize purse is US$1 million.
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[edit] Shaw Prize laureates
[edit] 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.
- 2009 Frank H. Shu – in recognition of his outstanding life-time contributions in theoretical astronomy.
[edit] 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.
- 2009 Douglas L. Coleman and Jeffrey M. Friedman – for their work leading to the discovery of leptin, a hormone that regulates food intake and body weight.
[edit] 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.
- 2009 Simon K. Donaldson and Clifford H. Taubes – for their many brilliant contributions to geometry in 3 and 4 dimensions.
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