Shaw Prize
Shaw Prize 2004: Winners
Recipients
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Astronomy
James Peebles
For his groundbreaking contribution to cosmology. He laid the foundations for almost all modern investigations in cosmology, both theoretical and observational, transforming a highly speculative field into a precision science.
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Life Science and Medicine
Herbert W. Boyer, Stanley N. Cohen
For their discoveries on DNA cloning and genetic engineering.
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Life Science and Medicine
Richard Doll
For his contribution to modern cancer epidemiology.
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Life Science and Medicine
Yuet Wai Kan
For his discoveries on DNA polymorphism and its influence on human genetics.
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Mathematical Sciences
Shiing-Shen Chern
For his initiation of the field of global differential geometry and his continued leadership of the field, resulting in beautiful developments that are at the centre of contemporary mathematics, with deep connections to topology, algebra and analysis, in short, to all major branches of mathematics of the last sixty years.