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Announcement of The Shaw Laureates 2006

Wednesday, June 21. At today's press conference in Hong Kong, The Shaw Prize Foundation announced The Shaw Laureates for 2006. Information was posted on the website www.shawprize.org at Hong Kong time 16:30 (GMT 08:30). The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, each prize bearing a monetary award of one million US dollars. This will be the third year that the Prize has been awarded and the presentation ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

Details of the Shaw Laureates:

Astronomy prize awarded jointly to:
Professor Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, USA
Professor Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA
Professor Brian Schmidt of the Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

for discovering that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, implying in the simplest interpretation that the energy density of space is non-vanishing even in the absence of any matter and radiation.

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