Shaw Prize
Shaw Prize 2010: Winners
Recipients
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Astronomy
Charles L. Bennett, David N. Spergel, Lyman Page
For their leadership of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) experiment, which has enabled precise determinations of the fundamental cosmological parameters, including the geometry, age and composition of the universe.
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Life Science and Medicine
David Julius
For his seminal discoveries of molecular mechanisms by which the skin senses painful stimuli and temperature and produces pain hypersensitivity.
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Mathematical Sciences
Jean Bourgain
For his profound work in mathematical analysis and its application to partial differential equations, mathematical physics, combinatorics, number theory, ergodic theory and theoretical computer science.