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The winner of the 2018 Shaw Prize announced a prize of up to US $1.2 million

The winner of the 2018 Shaw Prize announced a prize of up to US $1.2 million

4hw.com.cn: on May 14, the Shaw Prize Foundation held a press conference in Hong Kong to announce the three scientists who won the 15th "Shaw Prize". The award ceremony will be held in Hong Kong on September 26 this year. The "Shaw Prize" has three awards: astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematics. The award was announced in November 2002. Since 2004, it has been awarded once a year. Each award includes certificate, gold medal and $1.2 million bonus. Let's take a look at this year's award list!

Mathematics Science Award

Luis a caffarelli, a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, won the prize of mathematics science. Professor Luis created a set of regular theory, which is applicable to nonlinear equations such as mengri ampere equation and free boundary problems such as obstacle problem. It has influenced the research of the whole generation in this field and is a great breakthrough in partial differential equation.

Life science and medicine

Mary Claire king, Chair Professor of the American Cancer Society, Department of medicine and Department of genomics, University of Washington, won the life science and Medicine Award. She used mathematical models to predict and prove that breast cancer can be caused by a single gene. Her first genetic map of the breast cancer gene led to the cloning of the breast cancer gene, thus saving many lives.

Astronomy Award

Jean Loup Puget was awarded the astronomy award. He is a researcher of the National Center for scientific research of France and the Institute of space astrophysics of Orsay University of Paris, France, and the chief researcher of the Planck program high frequency instrument of the European Space Agency. He explored the far-infrared background of the universe emitted by galaxies in the past star formation process, and proposed interstellar matter It contains aromatic hydrocarbon molecules. Through the Planck space program, he dealt with the effects of interstellar material prospects, thus significantly improving human understanding of cosmology, so he was awarded for his contribution to the infrared to submillimeter spectral range astronomy.