ショウ賞 2016: 勝者

受賞者

1. 天文学

   Kip S. Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever

   物理学

   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. 生命科学と医学

   Adrian Bird, Huda Zoghbi

   生物学

   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. 数理科学

   Nigel J. Hitchin

   数学

   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.