Shaw Prize#Mathematical sciences

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File:Shaw2006astro.jpg, Adam Riess and Brian P. Schmidt (from left to right) jointly won the 2006 astronomy prize]]

The Shaw Prize is a set of three annual awards presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in the fields of astronomy, medicine and life sciences, and mathematical sciences. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong,{{cite web |title=2002年度「邵逸夫獎」新聞發佈會 |url=https://www.shawprize.org/tc/events/shaw-prize-establishment-press-conference-2002 |publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation |access-date=21 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921022327/https://www.shawprize.org/tc/events/shaw-prize-establishment-press-conference-2002 |archive-date=21 September 2022 |language=zh |date=15 November 2002}} by Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫),{{cite web |title=The Founder |url=https://www.shawprize.org/the-shaw-prize/the-founder |publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation |access-date=21 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921023700/https://www.shawprize.org/the-shaw-prize/the-founder |archive-date=21 September 2022}} the awards honour "individuals who are currently active in their respective fields and who have recently achieved distinguished and significant advances, who have made outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research or applications, or who in other domains have achieved excellence."{{cite web |url=https://www.shawprize.org/the-shaw-prize/about |title=About the Shaw Prize |publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation|access-date=21 September 2022 |archive-date=21 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921022530/https://www.shawprize.org/the-shaw-prize/about}} The prize has been described as the "Nobel of the East".{{cite web |url=http://www.jax.org/news/archives/2009/coleman_shaw_prize.html |title=Jackson Laboratory scientist wins Shaw Prize, "Nobel of the East" |date=16 June 2009 |publisher=Jackson Laboratory |access-date=26 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626223008/https://www.jax.org/news/archives/2009/coleman_shaw_prize.html |archive-date=26 June 2009}}{{cite web |url=http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2006/06/21/berkeley-labs-saul-perlmutter-wins-shaw-prize-in-astronomy/ |title=Berkeley Lab's Saul Perlmutter Wins Shaw Prize in Astronomy |date=21 June 2006 |publisher=Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |access-date=14 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814100628/https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2006/06/21/berkeley-labs-saul-perlmutter-wins-shaw-prize-in-astronomy/ |archive-date=14 August 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.babraham.org/news2005/july-19.html |title=$1 million 'Nobel of the East' awarded to Sir Michael Berridge, Emeritus Fellow at the Babraham Institute |date=18 July 2005 |publisher=Babraham Institute |access-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725030025/http://www.babraham.org/news2005/july-19.html |archive-date=25 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}{{cite web |url=http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/solana-beach/article_3b3d1a4d-261f-5ed0-9277-6d84554b28d9.html |title=Solana Beach: Astronomy researcher gets $1 million Shaw Prize |date=17 June 2009 |work=North County Times |access-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117150938/http://nctimes.com/news/local/solana-beach/article_3b3d1a4d-261f-5ed0-9277-6d84554b28d9.html |archive-date=17 January 2010}}

Award

The prize consists of three awards in the fields of astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences; it is not awarded posthumously. Nominations are submitted by invited individuals beginning each year in September. Winners are announced in the summer and receive the award at a ceremony in early autumn. Each award consists of a gold medal, a certificate and USD$1.2 million (US$1 million before 2015). The front of the medal bears a portrait of Shaw and the name of the prize in English and Traditional Chinese characters; the back bears the year, category, laureate's name and a quotation from the Chinese philosopher Xunzi "制天命而用之" (translated to English as "Grasp the law of nature and make use of it").{{cite web |url=https://www.shawprize.org/the-shaw-prize/medal-and-certificate |title=Medal & Certificate |publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation |access-date=21 September 2022 |archive-date=21 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921024344/https://www.shawprize.org/the-shaw-prize/medal-and-certificate}}

As of 2022, there have been 99 Shaw Laureates.{{cite web |title=Quick Facts |url=https://www.shawprize.org/the-shaw-prize/quick-facts |publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation |access-date=28 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928034106/https://www.shawprize.org/the-shaw-prize/quick-facts |archive-date=28 September 2022}} 16 Nobel laureates - Jules A. Hoffmann, Bruce Beutler, Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, Shinya Yamanaka, Robert Lefkowitz, Brian Schmidt, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor, Reinhard Genzel, and David Julius - are Shaw Laureates. The inaugural laureate of the Shaw Prize in Astronomy was Jim Peebles, honored for his contributions to cosmology. Two inaugural prizes were awarded for the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine: Stanley Norman Cohen, Herbert Boyer and Yuet Wai Kan jointly won one of them for their research in DNA while physiologist Richard Doll won the other for his contribution to cancer epidemiology. Shiing-Shen Chern was awarded the inaugural Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work on differential geometry.

Shaw Laureates

= Astronomy =

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Year ! class="unsortable" \| Portrait ! style="width:150px" \| Laureate{{ref label\|Note1\|a\|a}} ! style="width:150px" \| Country{{ref label\|Note2\|b\|b}} ! class="unsortable"\| Rationale{{ref label\|Note3\|c\|c}}
2004 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Peebles"\|P. James E. Peebles \| {{USA}} \| For his groundbreaking contribution to cosmology. He laid the foundations for almost all modern investigations in cosmology, both theoretical and observational, transforming a highly speculative field into a precision science.{{cite web \|title=The 2004 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2004 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=28 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928060225/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2004 \|archive-date=28 September 2022}}{{cite press release \|url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/brandhk/070904e2.htm \|title=Shaw Prize awarded to six scientists \|date=7 September 2004 \|publisher=Government of Hong Kong \|access-date=18 September 2004 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040918000146/https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/brandhk/070904e2.htm \|archive-date=18 September 2004}}
rowspan=2 \| 2005 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Marcy"\|Geoffrey Marcy \| {{USA}} \| rowspan=2 \| For finding and characterizing the orbits and masses of the first planets around other stars, thereby revolutionizing our understanding of the processes that form planets and planetary systems.{{cite web \|title=The 2005 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2005 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=28 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928060505/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2005 \|archive-date=28 September 2022}}{{cite news \|first1=Robert \|last1=Sanders \|url=http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/01_shaw.shtml \|title=Planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy shares $1 million Shaw Prize in astronomy \|date=1 September 2005 \|publisher=University of California, Berkeley \|access-date=9 September 2005 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050909062131/https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/01_shaw.shtml \|archive-date=9 September 2005}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Mayor"\|Michel Mayor \| {{SUI}}
rowspan=3 \| 2006 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Perlmutter"\|Saul Perlmutter \| {{USA}} \| rowspan=3 \| For discovering that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, implying in the simplest interpretation that the energy density of space is non-vanishing even in the absence of any matter and radiation.{{cite web \|title=The 2006 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2006 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=28 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928060745/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2006 \|archive-date=28 September 2022}}{{cite news \|url=http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/06/22_shaw.shtml \|title=Berkeley physicist Perlmutter wins Shaw Prize for work on expansion of universe \|date=22 June 2006 \|publisher=University of California, Berkeley \|access-date=25 June 2006 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060625094553/https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/06/22_shaw.shtml \|archive-date=25 June 2006}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Riess"\|Adam Riess \| {{USA}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Schmidt"\|Brian Schmidt \| {{AUS}}
2007 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Goldreich"\|Peter Goldreich \| {{USA}} \| In recognition of his lifetime achievements in theoretical astrophysics and planetary sciences.{{cite web \|title=The 2007 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2007 \|access-date=29 September 2022 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929142033/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2007 \|archive-date=29 September 2022}}{{cite news \|url=http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13004 \|title=Caltech Astrophysicist Peter Goldreich Wins $1 Million International Shaw Prize \|date=12 June 2007 \|publisher=California Institute of Technology \|access-date=31 October 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601154858/http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13004\|archive-date=1 June 2010}}
2008 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Genzel"\|Reinhard Genzel \| {{GER}} \| In recognition of his outstanding contributions in demonstrating that the Milky Way contains a supermassive black hole at its centre.{{cite web \|title=The 2008 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2008 \|access-date=29 September 2022 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929142308/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2008 \|archive-date=29 September 2022}}{{cite news \|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/6-professors-to-share-1-million-shaw-prizes/ \|title=6 Professors to Share $1-Million Shaw Prizes \|date=10 June 2008 \|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education \|access-date=29 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929142528/https://www.chronicle.com/article/6-professors-to-share-1-million-shaw-prizes/ \|archive-date=29 September 2022}}
2009 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Shu"\|Frank H. Shu (徐遐生) \| {{USA}} \| In recognition of his outstanding life-time contributions in theoretical astronomy.{{cite web \|title=The 2009 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2009 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=29 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929142710/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2009 \|archive-date=29 September 2022}}{{cite news \|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/1-million-shaw-prizes-go-to-5-researchers/ \|title=$1-Million Shaw Prizes Go to 5 Researchers \|date=16 June 2009 \|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education \|access-date=29 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929142921/https://www.chronicle.com/article/1-million-shaw-prizes-go-to-5-researchers/ \|archive-date=29 September 2022}}
rowspan=3 \| 2010 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Bennett"\|Charles L. Bennett \| {{USA}} \| rowspan=3 \| For their leadership of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) experiment, which has enabled precise determinations of the fundamental cosmological parameters, including the geometry, age and composition of the universe.{{cite web \|title=The 2010 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2010 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=29 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929143052/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2010 \|archive-date=29 September 2022}}{{cite news \|last1=MacPherson \|first1=Kitta \|title=Princeton scientists win Shaw Prize for helping map the universe \|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/05/27/princeton-scientists-win-shaw-prize-helping-map-universe \|access-date=29 September 2022 \|publisher=Princeton University \|date=27 May 2010 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929143707/https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/05/27/princeton-scientists-win-shaw-prize-helping-map-universe \|archive-date=29 September 2022}}
100px \| data-sort-value"Lyman"\|Lyman A. Page Jr. \| {{USA}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Spergel"\|David N. Spergel \| {{USA}}
rowspan=2 \| 2011 \| \| data-sort-value="Costa"\|Enrico Costa \| {{ITA}} \| rowspan=2 \| For their leadership of space missions that enabled the demonstration of the cosmological origin of gamma ray bursts, the brightest sources known in the universe.{{cite web \|title=The 2011 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2011 \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930032509/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2011 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|title=Enrico Costa and Jerry Fishman share Shaw Prize for gamma ray burst research \|url=https://spie.org/about-spie/spie-member-news/shaw-astronomy-6-20-11?SSO=1 \|publisher=SPIE \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930033151/https://spie.org/about-spie/spie-member-news/shaw-astronomy-6-20-11?SSO=1 \|archive-date=30 September 2022 \|date=20 June 2011}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Fishman"\|Gerald J. Fishman \| {{USA}}
rowspan=2 \| 2012 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Jewitt"\|David Jewitt \| {{USA}} \| rowspan=2 \| For their discovery and characterization of trans-Neptunian bodies, an archeological treasure dating back to the formation of the Solar System and the long-sought source of short period comets.{{cite web \|title=The 2012 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2012 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930033344/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2012 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|last1=Choi \|first1=Christy \|title=Q&A: Astronomers Jewitt, Luu on winning Shaw Prize and science as culture \|url=https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1040498/qa-astronomers-jewitt-luu-winning-shaw-prize-and-science-culture \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|work=South China Morning Post \|date=19 September 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930033755/https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1040498/qa-astronomers-jewitt-luu-winning-shaw-prize-and-science-culture \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Luu"\|Jane Luu \| {{USA}}
rowspan=2 \| 2013 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Balbus"\|Steven A. Balbus \| {{GBR}} \| rowspan=2 \| For their discovery and study of the magnetorotational instability, and for demonstrating that this instability leads to turbulence and is a viable mechanism for angular momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks.{{cite web \|title=The 2013 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2013 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930034154/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2013 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|last1=Strauss \|first1=Valerie \|title=U-Va. astronomer wins $1 million 'Nobel of the East' Prize \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/05/30/u-va-astronomer-wins-1-million-nobel-of-the-east-prize/ \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|newspaper=The Washington Post \|date=30 May 2013 \|archive-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220930034723/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/05/30/u-va-astronomer-wins-1-million-nobel-of-the-east-prize/}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Hawley"\|John F. Hawley \| {{USA}}
rowspan=3 \| 2014 \| \| data-sort-value="Eisenstein"\|Daniel Eisenstein \| {{USA}} \| rowspan=3 \| For their contributions to the measurements of features in the large-scale structure of galaxies used to constrain the cosmological model including baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions.{{cite web \|title=The 2014 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2014 \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429041715/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2014 \|archive-date=29 April 2022}}{{cite news \|title=School's Prof. John Peacock is joint recipient of Shaw Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/news/shaw-prize-2014-28-05-14 \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=University of Edinburgh \|date=28 May 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930034917/https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/news/shaw-prize-2014-28-05-14 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}
\| data-sort-value="Cole"\|Shaun Cole \| {{GBR}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Peacock"\|John A. Peacock \| {{GBR}}
2015 \| 100px \| data-sort-name="Borucki"\|William J. Borucki \| {{USA}} \| For his conceiving and leading the Kepler Mission, which greatly advanced knowledge of both extrasolar planetary systems and stellar interiors.{{cite web \|title=The 2015 Prize in Astronomy \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2015 \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930035816/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2015 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|last1=Fletcher \|first1=Julie \|title=Borucki Awarded 2015 Shaw Prize \|url=https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/borucki-awarded-2015-shaw-prize/ \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=NASA \|date=4 June 2015 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930040417/https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/borucki-awarded-2015-shaw-prize/ \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}
rowspan=3 \| 2016 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Drever"\|Ronald W. P. Drever \| {{UK}} \| rowspan=3 \|For conceiving and designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose recent direct detection of gravitational waves opens a new window in astronomy, with the first remarkable discovery being the merger of a pair of stellar mass black holes.{{cite web \|title=The 2016 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2016 \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930040618/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2016 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|title=2016 Shaw Prize Awarded to LIGO Founders \|url=https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/2016-shaw-prize-awarded-ligo-founders-50845 \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=California Institute of Technology \|date=1 June 2016 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930064724/https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/2016-shaw-prize-awarded-ligo-founders-50845 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Thorne"\|Kip S. Thorne \| {{USA}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Weiss"\|Rainer Weiss \| {{USA}}
2017 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="White"\|Simon D. M. White \| {{GER}} \| For his contributions to understanding structure formation in the Universe. With powerful numerical simulations he has shown how small density fluctuations in the early Universe develop into galaxies and other nonlinear structures, strongly supporting a cosmology with a flat geometry, and dominated by dark matter and a cosmological constant.{{cite web \|title=The 2017 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2017 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930064055/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2017 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|title=Shaw Prize for Simon D.M. White \|url=https://www.mpg.de/11313818/2017-shaw-prize-astronomy-simon-white \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=Max Planck Society \|date=24 May 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930064359/https://www.mpg.de/11313818/2017-shaw-prize-astronomy-simon-white \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}
2018 \| \| data-sort-value="Puget"\|Jean-Loup Puget \| {{FRA}} \| For his contributions to astronomy in the infrared to submillimetre spectral range. He detected the cosmic far-infrared background from past star-forming galaxies, and proposed aromatic hydrocarbon molecules as a constituent of interstellar matter. With the Planck space mission, he has dramatically advanced our knowledge of cosmology in the presence of interstellar matter foregrounds.{{cite web \|title=The 2018 Prize in Astronomy \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2018 \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930064326/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2018 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|title=Jean-Loup Puget has been awarded the Shaw Prize \|url=https://www.ias.u-psud.fr/en/content/jean-loup-puget-has-been-awarded-shaw-prize \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=Institut d'astrophysique spatiale \|date=22 May 2018 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930065230/https://www.ias.u-psud.fr/en/content/jean-loup-puget-has-been-awarded-shaw-prize \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}
2019 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Stone"\|Edward C. Stone \| {{USA}} \| For his leadership in the Voyager project, which has, over the past four decades, transformed our understanding of the four giant planets and the outer Solar System, and has now begun to explore interstellar space.{{cite web \|title=The 2019 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2019 \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930065925/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2019 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|title=Shaw Prize in Astronomy Awarded to Ed Stone \|url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/shaw-prize-in-astronomy-awarded-to-ed-stone/ \|publisher=NASA \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930070650/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/shaw-prize-in-astronomy-awarded-to-ed-stone/ \|archive-date=30 September 2022 \|date=22 May 2019}}
2020 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Blandford"\|Roger D. Blandford \| {{USA}} \| For his foundational contributions to theoretical astrophysics, especially concerning the fundamental understanding of active galactic nuclei, the formation and collimation of relativistic jets, the energy extraction mechanism from black holes, and the acceleration of particles in shocks and their relevant radiation mechanisms.{{cite web \|title=The 2020 Prize in Astronomy \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2020 \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930071130/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2020 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|title=Professor Roger Blandford awarded The Shaw Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-roger-blandford-awarded-shaw-prize-in-astronomy \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=University of Cambridge \|date=14 May 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930071230/https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-roger-blandford-awarded-shaw-prize-in-astronomy \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}
rowspan=2 \| 2021 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Kaspi"\|Victoria M. Kaspi \| {{CAN}} \| rowspan=2 \| For their contributions to our understanding of magnetars, a class of highly magnetized neutron stars that are linked to a wide range of spectacular, transient astrophysical phenomena. Through the development of new and precise observational techniques, they confirmed the existence of neutron stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields and characterized their physical properties. Their work has established magnetars as a new and important class of astrophysical objects.{{cite web \|title=The 2021 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2021 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930073014/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2021 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|title=Victoria M Kaspi and Chryssa Kouveliotou Receive the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau2104/ \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=International Astronomical Union \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930073301/https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau2104/ \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}
100px \| data-sort-value="Kouveliotou"\|Chryssa Kouveliotou \| {{USA}}
rowspan=2 \| 2022 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Lindegren"\|Lennart Lindegren \| {{SWE}} \| rowspan=2 \| For their lifetime contributions to space astrometry, and in particular for their role in the conception and design of the European Space Agency's Hipparcos and Gaia missions.{{cite web \|title=The 2022 Prize in Astronomy \|url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2022 \|publisher=Shaw Prize Foundation \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930075058/https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2022 \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}{{cite news \|last1=Frid \|first1=Emelie \|title=Lennart Lindegren is shared recipient of the Shaw Price in Astronomy! \|url=https://www.astro.lu.se/article/lennart-lindegren-shared-recipient-shaw-price-astronomy \|access-date=30 September 2022 \|publisher=Lund Observatory \|date=25 May 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930075221/https://www.astro.lu.se/article/lennart-lindegren-shared-recipient-shaw-price-astronomy \|archive-date=30 September 2022}}
\| data-sort-value="Perryman"\|Michael Perryman \| {{IRE}}
rowspan=3 \| 2023 \| 100px \| data-sort-value="Bailes"\|Matthew Bailes \| {{AUS}} \| rowspan=3 \|For the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs).[https://www.shawprize.org/news/announcement-press-conference-2023-press-release Shaw Prize 2023]
100px \| data-sort-value="Lorimer"\|Duncan Lorimer \| {{USA}}
\| data-sort-value="McLaughlin"\|Maura McLaughlin \| {{USA}}
2024 \|100px \| data-sort-value="Kulkarni"\|Shrinivas R. Kulkarni \| {{USA}} \| For his ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and other variable or transient astronomical objects

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