Premio Shaw 2024: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Astronomía

   Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

   Física

   For his ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and other variable or transient astronomical objects

2. Ciencias de la vida y medicina

   Stuart H. Orkin, Swee Lay Thein

   Biología

   For their discovery of the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switch, making possible a revolutionary and highly effective genome-editing therapy for sickle cell anemia and β thalassemia, devastating blood diseases that affect millions of people worldwide.

3. Ciencias Matemáticas

   Peter Sarnak

   Matemáticas

   For his development of the arithmetic theory of thin groups and the affine sieve, by bringing together number theory, analysis, combinatorics, dynamics, geometry and spectral theory.