The Shaw Prize was founded by Sir Run Shaw, a famous Hong Kong filmmaker, in June 2002. The first prize presentation ceremony was held in Hong Kong on September 7th, 2004. Every year, the Shaw Prize Foundation selects scientists who have made achievements in the fields of mathematics, medicine and astronomy in the world and awards a prize of one million dollars in recognition. And there are three awards: Natural Literature Award, Life Science and Medicine Award, Mathematical Science Award and * * *; This is an international award that imitates the Nobel Prize and is managed by Shaw Prize Foundation Limited.
This is an international award, but it is not the highest award in astronomy.
China Astronomy's Highest Prize-Yuzhe Zhang Prize
The highest prize of French Astronomical Society-Pierre Janssen Prize.
——Eger, the highest international amateur astronomical discovery award? Wilson prize
Spinoza prize, the highest prize in Dutch science
Gruber Foundation Cosmology Award (the highest award in cosmology and one of the highest awards in astronomy).
Established by the gruber Foundation and the International Astronomical Union, it awards scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the field of cosmology.
Gruber cosmology prize
The award was founded in 2000 by cosmologist-loving businessman Peter gruber, and is awarded once a year. Award outstanding astronomers, cosmologists, physicists, mathematicians or philosophers of science.
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