Shaw Prize

Shaw Prize: every winner

Every recorded recipient in one list, oldest first. Established in Hong Kong by Run Run Shaw in 2002 and first awarded in 2004 in astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences. Three prizes are presented annually at a ceremony in Hong Kong. Carries a prize of $1.2 million per category.

Browse Shaw Prize by year

121 recipients, 2004-2026

Year Category Winner
2004 Astronomy James Peebles
2004 Life Science and Medicine Herbert W. Boyer
2004 Life Science and Medicine Richard Doll
2004 Life Science and Medicine Stanley N. Cohen
2004 Life Science and Medicine Yuet Wai Kan
2004 Mathematical Sciences Shiing-Shen Chern
2005 Astronomy Geoffrey Marcy
2005 Astronomy Michel Mayor
2005 Life Science and Medicine Michael Berridge
2005 Mathematical Sciences Andrew Wiles
2006 Astronomy Adam G. Riess
2006 Astronomy Brian P. Schmidt
2006 Astronomy Saul Perlmutter
2006 Life Science and Medicine Xiaodong Wang
2006 Mathematical Sciences David Mumford
2006 Mathematical Sciences Wentsun Wu (吳文俊)
2007 Astronomy Peter Goldreich
2007 Life Science and Medicine Robert J. Lefkowitz
2007 Mathematical Sciences Richard Taylor
2007 Mathematical Sciences Robert Langlands
2008 Astronomy Reinhard Genzel
2008 Life Science and Medicine Ian Wilmut
2008 Life Science and Medicine Keith H. S. Campbell
2008 Life Science and Medicine Shinya Yamanaka
2008 Mathematical Sciences Ludvig Faddeev
2008 Mathematical Sciences Vladimir Arnold
2009 Astronomy Frank H. Shu (徐遐生)
2009 Life Science and Medicine Douglas L. Coleman
2009 Life Science and Medicine Jeffrey M. Friedman
2009 Mathematical Sciences Clifford H. Taubes
2009 Mathematical Sciences Simon Donaldson
2010 Astronomy Charles L. Bennett
2010 Astronomy David N. Spergel
2010 Astronomy Lyman Page
2010 Life Science and Medicine David Julius
2010 Mathematical Sciences Jean Bourgain
2011 Astronomy Enrico Costa
2011 Astronomy Gerald J. Fishman
2011 Life Science and Medicine Bruce A. Beutler
2011 Life Science and Medicine Jules A. Hoffmann
2011 Life Science and Medicine Ruslan M. Medzhitov
2011 Mathematical Sciences Demetrios Christodoulou
2011 Mathematical Sciences Richard S. Hamilton
2012 Astronomy David Jewitt
2012 Astronomy Jane Luu
2012 Life Science and Medicine Arthur L. Horwich
2012 Life Science and Medicine Franz-Ulrich Hartl
2012 Mathematical Sciences Maxim Kontsevich
2013 Astronomy John F. Hawley
2013 Astronomy Steven A. Balbus
2013 Life Science and Medicine Jeffrey C. Hall
2013 Life Science and Medicine Michael Rosbash
2013 Life Science and Medicine Michael W. Young
2013 Mathematical Sciences David L. Donoho
2014 Astronomy Daniel Eisenstein
2014 Astronomy John A. Peacock
2014 Astronomy Shaun Cole
2014 Life Science and Medicine Kazutoshi Mori
2014 Life Science and Medicine Peter Walter
2014 Mathematical Sciences George Lusztig
2015 Astronomy William J. Borucki
2015 Life Science and Medicine Bonnie L. Bassler
2015 Life Science and Medicine Everett Peter Greenberg
2015 Mathematical Sciences Gerd Faltings
2015 Mathematical Sciences Henryk Iwaniec
2016 Astronomy Kip S. Thorne
2016 Astronomy Rainer Weiss
2016 Astronomy Ronald Drever
2016 Life Science and Medicine Adrian Bird
2016 Life Science and Medicine Huda Zoghbi
2016 Mathematical Sciences Nigel J. Hitchin
2017 Astronomy Simon D. M. White
2017 Life Science and Medicine Ian R. Gibbons
2017 Life Science and Medicine Ronald Vale
2017 Mathematical Sciences Claire Voisin
2017 Mathematical Sciences János Kollár
2018 Astronomy Jean-Loup Puget
2018 Life Science and Medicine Mary-Claire King
2018 Mathematical Sciences Luis Caffarelli
2019 Astronomy Edward C. Stone
2019 Life Science and Medicine Maria Jasin
2019 Mathematical Sciences Michel Talagrand
2020 Astronomy Roger Blandford
2020 Life Science and Medicine Georg Nagel
2020 Life Science and Medicine Gero Miesenböck
2020 Life Science and Medicine Peter Hegemann
2020 Mathematical Sciences Alexander Beilinson
2020 Mathematical Sciences David Kazhdan
2021 Astronomy Chryssa Kouveliotou
2021 Astronomy Victoria M. Kaspi
2021 Life Science and Medicine Scott D. Emr
2021 Mathematical Sciences Jean-Michel Bismut
2021 Mathematical Sciences Jeff Cheeger
2022 Astronomy Lennart Lindegren
2022 Astronomy Michael Perryman
2022 Life Science and Medicine Michael J. Welsh
2022 Life Science and Medicine Paul Negulescu
2022 Mathematical Sciences Ehud Hrushovski
2022 Mathematical Sciences Noga Alon
2023 Astronomy Duncan Lorimer
2023 Astronomy Matthew Bailes
2023 Astronomy Maura McLaughlin
2023 Life Science and Medicine Eva Nogales
2023 Life Science and Medicine Patrick Cramer
2023 Mathematical Sciences Shing-Tung Yau
2023 Mathematical Sciences Vladimir Drinfeld
2024 Astronomy Shrinivas R. Kulkarni
2024 Life Science and Medicine Stuart H. Orkin
2024 Life Science and Medicine Swee Lay Thein
2024 Mathematical Sciences Peter Sarnak
2025 Astronomy George Efstathiou
2025 Astronomy John Richard Bond
2025 Life Science and Medicine Wolfgang Baumeister
2025 Mathematical Sciences Kenji Fukaya
2026 Astronomy Ken'ichi Nomoto
2026 Astronomy Stanford Woosley
2026 Life Science and Medicine Anne Dejean
2026 Life Science and Medicine Chen Zhu
2026 Life Science and Medicine Hugues de Thé
2026 Mathematical Sciences Camillo De Lellis
2026 Mathematical Sciences Emmanuel Candès