Premio Shaw

Premio Shaw 2013: Ganadores

Destinatarios

  1. Astronomía

    John F. Hawley, Steven A. Balbus

    Física

    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.

  2. Ciencias de la vida y medicina

    Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young

    Biología

    For their discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms.

  3. Ciencias Matemáticas

    David L. Donoho

    Matemáticas

    For his profound contributions to modern mathematical statistics and in particular the development of optimal algorithms for statistical estimation in the presence of noise and of efficient techniques for sparse representation and recovery in large data-sets.