Shaw Prize
Shaw Prize 2026: Winners
Recipients
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Astronomy
Ken'ichi Nomoto, Stanford Woosley
For their studies of stellar explosions and the origin of the elements.
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Life Science and Medicine
Anne Dejean, Chen Zhu, Hugues de Thé
For the discovery of the molecular and cellular bases of acute promyelocytic leukemia and the pioneering of a synergistic targeted therapy that transformed the disease from one of the most deadly to one of the most curable cancers.
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Mathematical Sciences
Camillo De Lellis, Emmanuel Candès
For their breakthrough contributions to the use of deep techniques from mathematical analysis to rigorously understand applied problems in information theory, signal processing and statistics on the one hand, and to the study of singularities in geometric measure theory and fluid dynamics on the other.