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The Shaw Laureates (2004 – 2020) YEAR Astronomy Life Science and Medicine Mathematical Sciences YEAR Astronomy Life Science and Medicine Mathematical Sciences David C Jewitt (USA) Franz-Ulrich Hartl (Germany) Two prizes awarded: 2012 Maxim Kontsevich (France) Jane Luu (USA) Arthur L Horwich (USA) (1) Stanley N Cohen (USA) 2004 P James E Peebles (USA) Herbert W Boyer (USA) Shiing-Shen Chern (China) Jeffrey C Hall (USA) Yuet-Wai Kan (USA) Steven A Balbus (UK) 2013 Michael Rosbash (USA) David L Donoho (USA) (2) Richard Doll (UK) John F Hawley (USA) Michael W Young (USA) Daniel Eisenstein (USA) Geoffrey Marcy (USA) Kazutoshi Mori (Japan) 2005 Michael Berridge (UK) Andrew John Wiles (UK) 2014 Shaun Cole (UK) George Lusztig (USA) Michel Mayor (Switzerland) Peter Walter (USA) John A Peacock (UK) Saul Perlmutter (USA) David Mumford (USA) Bonnie L Bassler (USA) Gerd Faltings (Germany) 2006 Adam Riess (USA) Xiaodong Wang (USA) 2015 William J Borucki (USA) Wentsun Wu (China) E Peter Greenberg (USA) Henryk Iwaniec (USA) Brian Schmidt (Australia) Ronald W P Drever (UK) Robert Langlands (USA) Adrian P Bird (UK) 2007 Peter Goldreich (USA) Robert Lefkowitz (USA) 2016 Kip S Thorne (USA) Nigel J Hitchin (UK) Richard Taylor (UK) Huda Y Zoghbi (USA) Rainer Weiss (USA) Ian Wilmut (UK) Vladimir Arnold (Russia) Ian R Gibbons (USA) János Kollár (USA) 2008 Reinhard Genzel (Germany) Keith H S Campbell (UK) 2017 Simon D M White (Germany) Ludwig Faddeev (Russia) Ronald D Vale (USA) Claire Voisin (France) Shinya Yamanaka (Japan) Douglas L Coleman (USA) Simon K Donaldson (UK) 2009 Frank H Shu (USA) Jean-Loup Puget (France) Mary-Claire King (USA) Luis A Caffarelli (USA) Jeffrey M Friedman (USA) Clifford H Taubes (USA) 2018 Charles L Bennett (USA) 2010 Lyman A Page Jr (USA) David Julius (USA) Jean Bourgain (USA) 2019 Edward C Stone (USA) Maria Jasin (USA) Michel Talagrand (France) David N Spergel (USA) Jules A Hoffmann (France) Demetrios Christodoulou Gero Miesenböck (UK) Enrico Costa (Italy) Alexander Beilinson (USA) 2011 Ruslan M Medzhitov (USA) (Switzerland) 2020 Roger D Blandford (USA) Peter Hegemann (Germany) Gerald J Fishman (USA) David Kazhdan (Israel) Bruce A Beutler (USA) Richard S Hamilton (USA) Georg Nagel (Germany) Note: Award may not be shared equally. For details, please refer to Announcement and Citation on the Shaw Prize website (www.shawprize.org) 19/19 Countries mentioned above refer to the sites of the work places of the Laureates at the time of the award..

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