
The Shaw Prize
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Prof. Bonnie Bassler, Chair of the Selection Committee for the #ShawPrize in Life Science & Medicine, introducing the 2025 Laureate, Prof. Wolfgang Baumeister. youtube.com/watch?v=BBFpdX… TU München Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) #CryoET #StructuralBiology


Prof. Hélène Esnault, Chair of the Selection Committee for the #ShawPrize in #MathematicalSciences, introducing the 2025 Laureate, Prof. Kenji Fukaya. youtube.com/watch?v=WDjWGC… Tsinghua University #geometry

Congratulations to Astronomy 2025 The Shaw Prize recipient Prof. George Efstathiou, founding Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge. We celebrate you and your co-laureate, John Richard Bond, for your pioneering research in cosmology. For more info:

🏅 Three of the four 2025 The Shaw Prize recipients are past IAS scholars: J. Richard Bond and George Efstathiou from the School of Natural Sciences, and Kenji Fukaya from the School of Mathematics. Read more: ias.edu/news/three-fou…

Born in Toronto, Prof. John Richard Bond studied at the University of Toronto & Caltech. A leader at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, his work on cosmic microwave background fluctuations shaped modern cosmology. University of Toronto Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics #ShawPrize #Astronomy


Listen to this week’s Physics World podcast as our 2025 Shaw Laureates in #Astronomy, Professors J. Richard Bond & George Efstathiou, talk about the cosmic microwave background (CMB) & how it shaped our understanding of the early universe. physicsworld.com/a/richard-bond…

🎖️The 2025 The Shaw Prize Kenji Fukaya 👏👏👏 🔓Check out Fukaya's research suvery article "Categorification of invariants in gauge theory and symplectic geometry" here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #DownloadForFree til June 15, 2025 #JapaneseJournalofMathematics 🏵️#TakagiLectures


London-born Prof. George Efstathiou trained at Oxford & Durham. From Head of Astrophysics at Oxford to Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, & now Emeritus Professor at Cambridge, he led major advances in cosmic structure & CMB data. Cambridge University The Kavli Foundation


Prof. Wolfgang Baumeister, trained in biophysics in Bonn & Düsseldorf, spent 40 years at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB). His invention of cryo-electron tomography transformed how we see molecular machines inside cells. TU München ShanghaiTech University #ShawPrize #CryoET


Prof. Kenji Fukaya earned his PhD at the University of Tokyo. From Kyoto to Stony Brook @ now Tsinghua University, he has made foundational contributions to symplectic geometry, symplectic topology, mirror symmetry, & gauge theory. #ShawPrize2025 #Mathematics
