Premio Shaw 2011: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Astronomía

   Enrico Costa, Gerald J. Fishman

   Física

   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.

2. Ciencias de la vida y medicina

   Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ruslan M. Medzhitov

   Biología

   For their discovery of the molecular mechanism of innate immunity, the first line of defense against pathogens.

3. Ciencias Matemáticas

   Demetrios Christodoulou, Richard S. Hamilton

   Matemáticas

   For their highly innovative works on nonlinear partial differential equations in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry and their applications to general relativity and topology.