Four scientists win awards of the 2025 Shaw Prize
發佈日期: 2025-05-27 19:21
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Four scientists were the winners in this year's Shaw Prize.
The award ceremony is expected to take place in Wan Chai on October 21st. Each recipient will be given a certificate, gold medal and a monetary prize of 1.2 million U.S. dollars.
The winners of the 22nd Shaw Prize have been unveiled.
The Prize in Mathematical Sciences goes to Japan's Kenji Fukaya, a professor at Tsinghua University's Yau Mathematical Sciences Centre.
He was awarded the prize for his work on symplectric geometry, particularly for envisioning the existence of the Fukaya category, and for his groundbreaking achievements in symplectric topology, mirror symmetry and gauge theory.
British scientist John Richard Bond and Canadian George Efstathiou shared the Astronomy Award.
Scott Tremaine, Chair of Selection Committee for the Shaw Prize in Astronomy, announced: "The 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy is awarded to John Richard Bond and George Efstathiou for pioneering research in cosmology."
The duo are recognized for their theoretical research in temperature and polarisation in cosmic microwave background radiation.
Their calculation of the CMB power spectrum was confirmed by radio telescopes, yielding accurate values for the age and expansion rate of the universe.
Meanwhile, German scientist Wolfgang Baumeister became the winner of this year's Life Science and Medicine award.
Bonnie Bassler, Chair of Selection Committee for the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, said: "Wolfgang Baumeister is awarded the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for his pioneering development of cryogenic-electron tomography, cryoET."
"CryoET is a technique that allows three dimensional imaging of biocomponents as they exist in their natural cellular settings."
Justin Wu, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said this technology is truly revolutionary because it allows us to gain deeper understanding about the interactions among cell sets and components, as well as the relationship between the Alzheimer's disease and proteasomes' functions.
The Shaw Prize's committee suggested they are planning to set up a new category of scientific award.
The committee chair said the addition is part of the natural development of a world-recognised award.
He said the new award is likely within the realm of general science, and the specific field is undecided yet.
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