21 September 2011

Attn: News Editor

Press Notification

The Shaw Prize Award Presentation Ceremony 2011

The Shaw  Prize Award Presentation Ceremony 2011 will take place in Hong Kong on  Wednesday, 28 September 2011. The Honourable Donald Tsang, Chief  Executive of the HKSAR, People’s Republic
of China has kindly consented to officiate at the ceremony.

The Shaw Laureates for 2011 had been announced earlier. Details of the Shaw Laureates are as follows:

The Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Awarded  in equal shares to Dr Enrico Costa, Director of Research at the  Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics (Rome) of the  National Institute of Astrophysics, Italy and Dr Gerald J Fishman,
Senior  Astrophysicist at the NASA – Marshall Space Flight Center, USA for  their leadership of space missions that enabled the demonstration of the  cosmological origin of gamma ray bursts, the brightest
sources known in the universe.

The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
Awarded  in equal shares to Professor Jules A Hoffmann of University of  Strasbourg, France, Professor Ruslan M Medzhitov, David W Wallace  Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University, USA
and  Professor Bruce A Beutler, Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair  in Cancer Research, and Director of Center for Genetics of Host  Defense, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Dallas, USA for their discovery of the molecular mechanism of innate immunity, the first line of defense against pathogens.

The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
Awarded  in equal shares to Professor Demetrios Christodoulou, Professor of  Mathematics and Physics at the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland and Professor  Richard S Hamilton, Davies Professor of Mathematics,
Columbia  University, USA for their highly innovative works on nonlinear partial  differential equations in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry and their  applications to general relativity and topology.

A 5-minute segment will be uplinked via satellite transmission at Hong Kong time 2230 – 2300
(GMT 1430 − 1500). Photos of the ceremony will also be uploaded onto the website www.shawprize.org
at Hong Kong time 2230 (GMT 1430) from 28 September 2011 onwards.

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