Shaw Prize 2014 || Astronomy || Life Science & Medicine || Mathematical Science

September 26, 2014

Congratulation to all recipient of Shaw Prize 2014!

The front of the medal displays a portrait of Run Run Shaw, next to which are the words and Chinese characters for the title of "The Shaw Prize". On the reverse, the medal shows the award category, the relevant year and the name of the laureate. A seal of imprint of the Chinese phrase "制天命而用之" (quoted from Xun Zi – a thinker in the warring states period of Chinese history in 313 – 238 B.C.) meaning "Grasp the law of nature and make use of it" appears in the upper right corner.

For more information: www.shawprize.org

Astronomy
- Daniel Eisenstein
- Shaun Cole
- John A Peacock

"for their contributions to the measurements of features in the large-scale structure of galaxies used to constrain the cosmological model including baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions."

Life Science & Medicine
- Kazutoshi Mori
- Peter Walter

"for their discovery of the Unfolded Protein Response of the endoplasmic reticulum, a cell signalling pathway that controls organelle homeostasis and quality of protein export in eukaryotic cells."

Mathematical Sciences
- George Lusztig

"for his fundamental contributions to algebra, algebraic geometry, and representation theory, and for weaving these subjects together to solve old problems and reveal beautiful new connections."