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Hong Kong Science Museum's "The Shaw Prize 2025 Exhibition" showcases laureates' achievements in scientific research (with photos)
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     The Hong Kong Science Museum will launch "The Shaw Prize 2025 Exhibition" tomorrow (October 17) at the museum's main lobby on 1/F to introduce the Shaw Laureates this year and their outstanding contributions. The exhibition also presents related science knowledge with interactive panels, guiding the public to explore the research journey of these distinguished scientists. The exhibition will run until December 17. Admission is free.
 
     Established in 2002, the Shaw Prize consists of three annual awards, namely the Prize in Astronomy, the Prize in Life Science and Medicine and the Prize in Mathematical Sciences.
 
     The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2025 is awarded in equal shares to two scholars, John Richard Bond, Professor of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and University Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, and George Efstathiou, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, for their pioneering research in cosmology, in particular for their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. Their predictions have been verified by an armada of ground-, balloon- and space-based instruments, leading to precise determinations of the age, geometry, and mass-energy content of the universe.
 
     The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2025 is awarded to Wolfgang Baumeister, Director Emeritus and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at ShanghaiTech University, People's Republic of China, for his pioneering development and use of cryogenic-electron tomography (cryo-ET), an imaging technique that enables three-dimensional visualisation of biological samples, including proteins, macromolecular complexes, and cellular compartments as they exist in their natural cellular settings.
 
     The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2025 is awarded to Kenji Fukaya, Professor at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications and the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China, for his pioneering work on symplectic geometry, especially for envisioning the existence of a category - nowadays called the Fukaya category - consisting of Lagrangians on a symplectic manifold.
 
     "The Shaw Prize 2025 Exhibition" is jointly presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and The Shaw Prize Foundation and is jointly organised by the Hong Kong Science Museum, the Hong Kong Space Museum, the Education Bureau and the Hong Kong Education City. For details of the exhibition and activities, please visit hk.science.museum/en/web/scm/exhibition/shawprize.html.
 
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The Hong Kong Science Museum will launch "The Shaw Prize 2025 Exhibition" tomorrow (October 17) to introduce the Shaw Laureates this year and their outstanding contributions, as well as present related science knowledge.
The Hong Kong Science Museum will launch "The Shaw Prize 2025 Exhibition" tomorrow (October 17) to introduce the Shaw Laureates this year and their outstanding contributions, as well as present related science knowledge.
The Hong Kong Science Museum will launch "The Shaw Prize 2025 Exhibition" tomorrow (October 17) to introduce the Shaw Laureates this year and their outstanding contributions. Interactive panels at the exhibition will allow visitors to learn about the related science knowledge in an accessible way.