Friday, June 21, 2013

Shaw Prize, 2013

For Astronomy: Steven A. Balbus and John F. Hawley “for their discovery and study of the magnetorotational instability, and for demonstrating that this instability leads to turbulence and is a viable mechanism for angular momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks.”  Dr Balbus is Savilian professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford in the UK. Dr Hawley is associate dean for the sciences, and a professor and chair of the astronomy department at the University of Virginia, USA.

For Life Science & Medicine:  Shared by Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young “for their discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, which are guided by biological clocks and drive the waking and sleeping cycle.”   Dr Hall is visiting Professor at the University of Maine. Dr Rosbash is Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. Dr. Young is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor at the Rockefeller University.

For Mathematical Sciences: David L. Donoho for his “contributions to modern mathematical statistics and in particular the development of optimal algorithms for statistical estimation in the presence of noise and of efficient techniques for sparse representation and recovery in large data-sets.” Dr Donoho is Professor of Statistics at Stanford University.

Shaw Prize, named after the 105-year-old Hong Kong media titan and philanthropist Run Run Shaw, is often referred to informally as the Nobel Prize of Asia. The annual award marked its 10th anniversary for recognizing scientists and scholars in the fields of astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences.  

Each prize receives US$1 million, and in the case of two or more winners for one prize, the award money is shared. 

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