Shaw Prize 2017: Winners

Recipients

1. Astronomy

   Simon D. M. White

   Physics

   For his contributions to understanding structure formation in the Universe. With powerful numerical simulations he has shown how small density fluctuations in the early Universe develop into galaxies and other nonlinear structures, strongly supporting a cosmology with a flat geometry, and dominated by dark matter and a cosmological constant.

2. Life Science and Medicine

   Ian R. Gibbons, Ronald Vale

   Biology

   For their discovery of microtubule-associated motor proteins: engines that power cellular and intracellular movements essential to the growth, division, and survival of human cells.

3. Mathematical Sciences

   Claire Voisin, János Kollár

   Math

   For their remarkable results in many central areas of algebraic geometry, which have transformed the field and led to the solution of long-standing problems that had appeared out of reach.