Shaw Prize: Winners by Year
Established in Hong Kong by Run Run Shaw in 2002 and first awarded in 2004 in astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences. Three prizes are presented annually at a ceremony in Hong Kong. Carries a prize of $1.2 million per category.
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The last 30 award years. See every Shaw Prize winner in one list, or use the Categories above.
2026
- Ken'ichi Nomoto Astronomy
- Stanford Woosley Astronomy
- Anne Dejean Life Science and Medicine
- Chen Zhu Life Science and Medicine
- Hugues de Thé Life Science and Medicine
- Camillo De Lellis Mathematical Sciences
- Emmanuel Candès Mathematical Sciences
2025
- George Efstathiou Astronomy
- John Richard Bond Astronomy
- Wolfgang Baumeister Life Science and Medicine
- Kenji Fukaya Mathematical Sciences
2024
- Shrinivas R. Kulkarni Astronomy
- Stuart H. Orkin Life Science and Medicine
- Swee Lay Thein Life Science and Medicine
- Peter Sarnak Mathematical Sciences
2023
- Duncan Lorimer Astronomy
- Matthew Bailes Astronomy
- Maura McLaughlin Astronomy
- Eva Nogales Life Science and Medicine
- Patrick Cramer Life Science and Medicine
- Shing-Tung Yau Mathematical Sciences
- Vladimir Drinfeld Mathematical Sciences
2022
- Lennart Lindegren Astronomy
- Michael Perryman Astronomy
- Michael J. Welsh Life Science and Medicine
- Paul Negulescu Life Science and Medicine
- Ehud Hrushovski Mathematical Sciences
- Noga Alon Mathematical Sciences
2021
- Chryssa Kouveliotou Astronomy
- Victoria M. Kaspi Astronomy
- Scott D. Emr Life Science and Medicine
- Jean-Michel Bismut Mathematical Sciences
- Jeff Cheeger Mathematical Sciences
2020
- Roger Blandford Astronomy
- Georg Nagel Life Science and Medicine
- Gero Miesenböck Life Science and Medicine
- Peter Hegemann Life Science and Medicine
- Alexander Beilinson Mathematical Sciences
- David Kazhdan Mathematical Sciences
2019
- Edward C. Stone Astronomy
- Maria Jasin Life Science and Medicine
- Michel Talagrand Mathematical Sciences
2018
- Jean-Loup Puget Astronomy
- Mary-Claire King Life Science and Medicine
- Luis Caffarelli Mathematical Sciences
2017
- Simon D. M. White Astronomy
- Ian R. Gibbons Life Science and Medicine
- Ronald Vale Life Science and Medicine
- Claire Voisin Mathematical Sciences
- János Kollár Mathematical Sciences
2016
- Kip S. Thorne Astronomy
- Rainer Weiss Astronomy
- Ronald Drever Astronomy
- Adrian Bird Life Science and Medicine
- Huda Zoghbi Life Science and Medicine
- Nigel J. Hitchin Mathematical Sciences
2015
- William J. Borucki Astronomy
- Bonnie L. Bassler Life Science and Medicine
- Everett Peter Greenberg Life Science and Medicine
- Gerd Faltings Mathematical Sciences
- Henryk Iwaniec Mathematical Sciences
2014
- Daniel Eisenstein Astronomy
- John A. Peacock Astronomy
- Shaun Cole Astronomy
- Kazutoshi Mori Life Science and Medicine
- Peter Walter Life Science and Medicine
- George Lusztig Mathematical Sciences
2013
- John F. Hawley Astronomy
- Steven A. Balbus Astronomy
- Jeffrey C. Hall Life Science and Medicine
- Michael Rosbash Life Science and Medicine
- Michael W. Young Life Science and Medicine
- David L. Donoho Mathematical Sciences
2012
- David Jewitt Astronomy
- Jane Luu Astronomy
- Arthur L. Horwich Life Science and Medicine
- Franz-Ulrich Hartl Life Science and Medicine
- Maxim Kontsevich Mathematical Sciences
2011
- Enrico Costa Astronomy
- Gerald J. Fishman Astronomy
- Bruce A. Beutler Life Science and Medicine
- Jules A. Hoffmann Life Science and Medicine
- Ruslan M. Medzhitov Life Science and Medicine
- Demetrios Christodoulou Mathematical Sciences
- Richard S. Hamilton Mathematical Sciences
2010
- Charles L. Bennett Astronomy
- David N. Spergel Astronomy
- Lyman Page Astronomy
- David Julius Life Science and Medicine
- Jean Bourgain Mathematical Sciences
2009
- Frank H. Shu (徐遐生) Astronomy
- Douglas L. Coleman Life Science and Medicine
- Jeffrey M. Friedman Life Science and Medicine
- Clifford H. Taubes Mathematical Sciences
- Simon Donaldson Mathematical Sciences
2008
- Reinhard Genzel Astronomy
- Ian Wilmut Life Science and Medicine
- Keith H. S. Campbell Life Science and Medicine
- Shinya Yamanaka Life Science and Medicine
- Ludvig Faddeev Mathematical Sciences
- Vladimir Arnold Mathematical Sciences
2007
- Peter Goldreich Astronomy
- Robert J. Lefkowitz Life Science and Medicine
- Richard Taylor Mathematical Sciences
- Robert Langlands Mathematical Sciences
2006
- Adam G. Riess Astronomy
- Brian P. Schmidt Astronomy
- Saul Perlmutter Astronomy
- Xiaodong Wang Life Science and Medicine
- David Mumford Mathematical Sciences
- Wentsun Wu (吳文俊) Mathematical Sciences
2005
- Geoffrey Marcy Astronomy
- Michel Mayor Astronomy
- Michael Berridge Life Science and Medicine
- Andrew Wiles Mathematical Sciences
2004
- James Peebles Astronomy
- Herbert W. Boyer Life Science and Medicine
- Richard Doll Life Science and Medicine
- Stanley N. Cohen Life Science and Medicine
- Yuet Wai Kan Life Science and Medicine
- Shiing-Shen Chern Mathematical Sciences