4 scientists worldwide win Shaw Prize in 2024

STORY: 4 scientists worldwide win Shaw Prize in 2024 SHOOTING TIME: May 21, 2024 DATELINE: May 22, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:52 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference STORYLINE: Four scientists won the Shaw Prize this year for their outstanding work in the prize's three categories, the Shaw Prize Foundation announced on Tuesday. The Astronomy prize went to Shrinivas R Kulkarni, George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology, for his discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and other variable or transient astronomical objects. The Life Science and Medicine prize is awarded in equal shares to Swee Lay Thein from the National Institutes of Health in the United States and Stuart Orkin from Harvard Medical School, for their discovery of the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switch that facilitated treatment for devastating blood diseases

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(220305) -- AGARTALA, March 5, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A health worker collects blood sample of a school student to check hemoglobin before giving medicine for anemia, a condition in which the blood doesn't have enough healthy red blood cells, in a school, organised by NHM (National Health Mission), on the outskirts of Agartala, the capital city of India's northeastern state of Tripura, March 5, 2022. (Str/Xinhua)