Each group of winners will share the sum of $ 1.2 million. Prize on astronomy this year will be awarded to Roger Blandford of Stanford University (USA) “for his fundamental contributions to theoretical astrophysics, in particular, the understanding of the physics of active galactic nuclei, the formation of relativistic jets, the mechanism of extracting energy from black holes.” Award in the field of life Sciences and medicine divided between Gero Miesenbock from Oxford, Peter Hegemann from Humboldt University in Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the University of Wurzburg “for the development of optogenetics, a technology that has revolutionized the neurosciences”. In mathematics the award will be divided Alexander Belenson from the University of Chicago and David Kazhdan of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, “for contributions to the theory of representations, as well as in many other areas of mathematics.”
the Award Shao is one of the most prestigious in the world, its winners often later became Nobel laureates. So, in the field of astronomy received the Nobel prize in 2019 Jim Peebles (winner of the Shao 2004) and Michel Mayor (2005) in 2017, Kip Thorne, and Rainer Weiss (2016). In the field of life Sciences is, for example, Nobelist 2012 for chemistry Robert Lefkowitz (premium Shao 2007) and the same year medical Signa Yamanaka (2008), winner of the 2011 Jules Hoffman and Bruce Betler (they received the award Shao shortly before his Nobel prize in the same year).
