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.

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[edit] List of recipients

[edit] Astronomy

The 2006 Prize winners in Astronomy. From the left: Perlmutter, Riess, Schmidt.
The 2006 Prize winners in Astronomy.
From the left: Perlmutter, Riess, Schmidt.
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

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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

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