Shaw Prize 2024: Winners

Recipients

1. Astronomy

   Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

   Physics

   For his ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and other variable or transient astronomical objects

2. Life Science and Medicine

   Stuart H. Orkin, Swee Lay Thein

   Biology

   For their discovery of the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switch, making possible a revolutionary and highly effective genome-editing therapy for sickle cell anemia and β thalassemia, devastating blood diseases that affect millions of people worldwide.

3. Mathematical Sciences

   Peter Sarnak

   Math

   For his development of the arithmetic theory of thin groups and the affine sieve, by bringing together number theory, analysis, combinatorics, dynamics, geometry and spectral theory.