Shaw Prize
Shaw Prize 2013: Winners
Recipients
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Astronomy
John F. Hawley, Steven A. Balbus
For their discovery and study of the magnetorotational instability, and for demonstrating that this instability leads to turbulence and is a viable mechanism for angular momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks.
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Life Science and Medicine
Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young
For their discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms.
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Mathematical Sciences
David L. Donoho
For his profound contributions to modern mathematical statistics and in particular the development of optimal algorithms for statistical estimation in the presence of noise and of efficient techniques for sparse representation and recovery in large data-sets.