The Shaw Laureates 2026 (from left to right): Ken\u2019ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley, The Shaw Prize in Astronomy; Anne Dejean, Hugues de Th\u00e9 and Zhu Chen, The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine; Emmanuel Cand\u00e8s and Camillo De Lellis, The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.<\/p>\n
Ken’ichi Nomoto
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Senior Scientist of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Japan and<\/p>\n
Stanford Woosley
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA<\/p>\n
for their studies of stellar explosions and the origin of the elements.<\/p>\n
The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine is awarded in equal shares to<\/p>\n
Anne Dejean
Professor Emerita, Institut Pasteur, France<\/p>\n
Hugues de Th\u00e9
Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Oncology, Coll\u00e8ge de France and<\/p>\n
Zhu Chen
Professor, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, PRC<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences is awarded in equal shares to<\/p>\n
Emmanuel Cand\u00e8s
The Barnum\u2013Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University, USA and<\/p>\n
Camillo De Lellis
IBM von Neumann Professor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Wednesday, 27 May 2026.\u00a0At today’s press conference in Hong Kong, The Shaw Prize Foundation announced the Shaw Laureates for 2026. Information was posted on the website www.shawprize.org<\/a> at Hong Kong time 15:30 (GMT 07:30).<\/p>\n The Shaw Prize consists of four annual prizes — Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, awarded since 2004, together with the newly introduced Computer Science Prize, to be awarded from 2027. Each bearing a monetary award of US$1.2 million. This will be the twenty-third year that the Prize has been awarded and the date of presentation ceremony will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n SOURCE Shaw Prize<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/rt.newswire.ca\/rt.gif?NewsItemId=C3661&Transmission_Id=202605270330CANADANWCANADAPR_C3661&DateId=20260527\")
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