Shaw Prize 2011: Winners

Recipients

1. Astronomy

   Enrico Costa, Gerald J. Fishman

   Physics

   For their leadership of space missions that enabled the demonstration of the cosmological origin of gamma ray bursts, the brightest sources known in the universe.

2. Life Science and Medicine

   Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ruslan M. Medzhitov

   Biology

   For their discovery of the molecular mechanism of innate immunity, the first line of defense against pathogens.

3. Mathematical Sciences

   Demetrios Christodoulou, Richard S. Hamilton

   Math

   For their highly innovative works on nonlinear partial differential equations in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry and their applications to general relativity and topology.