NAS International Members Honored with Shaw Prize

Two NAS international members have been awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize. Wolfgang P. Baumeister has won the Prize in Life Science and Medicine 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.

John Richard Bond shares the Prize in Astronomy with George Efstathiou for thier 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.