Prix Shaw 2016 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Astronomie

   Kip S. Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever

   Physique

   For conceiving and designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose recent direct detection of gravitational waves opens a new window in astronomy, with the first remarkable discovery being the merger of a pair of stellar mass black holes.

2. Sciences de la vie et médecine

   Adrian Bird, Huda Zoghbi

   Biologie

   For their discovery of the genes and the encoded proteins that recognize one chemical modification of the DNA of chromosomes that influences gene control as the basis of the developmental disorder Rett syndrome.

3. Sciences mathématiques

   Nigel J. Hitchin

   Mathématiques

   For his far-reaching contributions to geometry, representation theory and theoretical physics. The fundamental and elegant concepts and techniques that he has introduced have had wide impact and are of lasting importance.