Life Science Encyclopedia

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

• 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

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