The Shaw Foundation, in Hong Kong, named six professors on Wednesday as the winners of the 2006 Shaw Prizes, which are worth $1-million in each of three categories. The annual awards honor breakthroughs in academic and scientific research, and are sometimes referred to as the “Nobels of the East.”
The prizes and winners are as follows:
Three academics -- Saul Perlmutter, a physics professor at the University of California at Berkeley; Adam Riess, a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University; and Brian Schmidt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Australian National University -- will share the prize in astronomy, for discovering that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating.
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