HONG
KONG, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy is awarded to
Shrinivas R Kulkarni
George Ellery Hale Professor of
Astronomy and Planetary Science, Division of Physics, Mathematics
and Astronomy at the California Institute of
Technology, USA
for his ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars,
gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and other variable or transient
astronomical objects. His contributions to time-domain astronomy
culminated in the conception, construction and leadership of
the Palomar Transient Factory and its successor, the Zwicky
Transient Facility, which have revolutionised our understanding of
the time-variable optical sky.
The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine is
awarded in equal shares to
Swee Lay Thein
Senior
Investigator and Chief of the Sickle Cell Branch of National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health,
USA and
Stuart Orkin
David G
Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA
for their discovery of the genetic and molecular mechanisms
underlying the fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switch, making possible a
revolutionary and highly effective genome-editing therapy for
sickle cell anemia and b thalassemia, devastating blood diseases
that affect millions of people worldwide.
The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences is awarded
to
Peter Sarnak
Gopal
Prasad Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study
in Princeton and Eugene Higgins
Professor of Mathematics at Princeton
University, USA
for his development of the arithmetic theory of thin groups
and the affine sieve, by bringing together number theory, analysis,
combinatorics, dynamics, geometry and spectral theory.
Tuesday, 21 May 2024. At
today's press conference in Hong
Kong, The Shaw Prize Foundation announced the Shaw Laureates
for 2024. Information was posted on the website
www.shawprize.org at Hong Kong time 15:30 (GMT
07:30).
The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life
Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, each bearing a
monetary award of US$1.2 million.
This will be the twenty-first year that the Prize has been awarded
and the presentation ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday,
12 November 2024 in Hong Kong.
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