Premio Shaw 2004: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Astronomía

   James Peebles

   Física

   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.

2. Ciencias de la vida y medicina

   Herbert W. Boyer, Stanley N. Cohen

   Biología

   For their discoveries on DNA cloning and genetic engineering.

3. Ciencias de la vida y medicina

   Richard Doll

   Biología

   For his contribution to modern cancer epidemiology.

4. Ciencias de la vida y medicina

   Yuet Wai Kan

   Biología

   For his discoveries on DNA polymorphism and its influence on human genetics.

5. Ciencias Matemáticas

   Shiing-Shen Chern

   Matemáticas

   For his initiation of the field of global differential geometry and his continued leadership of the field, resulting in beautiful developments that are at the centre of contemporary mathematics, with deep connections to topology, algebra and analysis, in short, to all major branches of mathematics of the last sixty years.