Prix Shaw 2024 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Astronomie

   Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

   Physique

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

2. Sciences de la vie et médecine

   Stuart H. Orkin, Swee Lay Thein

   Biologie

   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. Sciences mathématiques

   Peter Sarnak

   Mathématiques

   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.