for his groundbreaking contribution to cosmology. He laid the foundations for almost all modern investigations in cosmology, both theoretical and observational, transforming a highly speculative field into a precision science.
Prize One Laureates Half jointly to Stanley N Cohen & Herbert W Boyer for their discoveries on DNA cloning and genetic engineering Half to Yuet-Wai Kan for his discoveries on DNA polymorphism and its influence on human genetics. Prize Two to Laureate Richard Doll for his contribution to modern cancer epidemiology.
for his initiation of the field of global differential geometry and his continued leadership of the field, resulting in beautiful developments that are at the centre of contemporary mathematics, with deep connections to topology, algebra and analysis, in short, to all major branches of mathematics of the last sixty years.
