Shaw Prize
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The Shaw Prize is a set of three annual awards presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in the fields of astronomy, medicine and life sciences, and mathematical sciences. Established in 2002 in Hong Kon
Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian P. Schmidt (from left to right) jointly won the 2006 astronomy prize
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Emmanuel Candès
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Emmanuel Jean Candès is a French statistician most well known for his contributions to the field of compressed sensing and statistical hypothesis testing. He is a professor of statistics and electrica
Shaw Prize
…of constructing it, and for his subsequent ground-breaking and impactful contributions to symplectic topology, mirror symmetry, and gauge theory. 2026 Emmanuel Candès France For their breakthrough contributions to the use of deep techniques from mathematical analysis to rigorously understand applied problems in…
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