Everything about The Shaw Prize totally explained
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." It is known as the
Nobel Prize of the
East
. The annually awarded prize purse is
US$1 million.
Shaw Prize laureates
Astronomy
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
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
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