Shaw Prize 2023: Winners

Recipients

1. Astronomy

   Duncan Lorimer, Matthew Bailes, Maura McLaughlin

   Physics

   For the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs).

2. Life Science and Medicine

   Eva Nogales, Patrick Cramer

   Biology

   For pioneering structural biology that enabled visualisation, at the level of individual atoms, of the protein machines responsible for gene transcription, one of life's fundamental processes. They revealed the mechanism underlying each step in gene transcription, how proper gene transcription promotes health, and how dysregulation causes disease.

3. Mathematical Sciences

   Shing-Tung Yau, Vladimir Drinfeld

   Math

   For their contributions related to mathematical physics, to arithmetic geometry, to differential geometry and to Kähler geometry.