Prix Shaw 2023 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Astronomie

   Duncan Lorimer, Matthew Bailes, Maura McLaughlin

   Physique

   For the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs).

2. Sciences de la vie et médecine

   Eva Nogales, Patrick Cramer

   Biologie

   For pioneering structural biology that enabled visualisation, at the level of individual atoms, of the protein machines responsible for gene transcription, one of life's fundamental processes. They revealed the mechanism underlying each step in gene transcription, how proper gene transcription promotes health, and how dysregulation causes disease.

3. Sciences mathématiques

   Shing-Tung Yau, Vladimir Drinfeld

   Mathématiques

   For their contributions related to mathematical physics, to arithmetic geometry, to differential geometry and to Kähler geometry.