Shaw Prize 2019: Winners

Recipients

1. Astronomy

   Edward C. Stone

   Physics

   For his leadership in the Voyager project, which has, over the past four decades, transformed our understanding of the four giant planets and the outer Solar System, and has now begun to explore interstellar space.

2. Life Science and Medicine

   Maria Jasin

   Biology

   For her work showing that localized double strand breaks in DNA stimulate recombination in mammalian cells. This seminal work was essential for and led directly to the tools enabling editing at specific sites in mammalian genomes.

3. Mathematical Sciences

   Michel Talagrand

   Math

   For his work on concentration inequalities, on suprema of stochastic processes and on rigorous results for spin glasses.