[Commentary] On May 21, the Shaw Shaw Awards Council announced the winners of the 2020 Shaw Shaw Awards in Hong Kong. Six scientists from the United States, Britain, Germany and Israel won the prizes in astronomy, life sciences and medicine, and mathematics Each bonus is USD 1.2 million. Yang Gangkai, chairman of the Shaw Shaw Awards Council, announced that the 2020 Shaw Shaw Awards ceremony will be postponed to 2021 due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic. The specific date will be announced later.

　　[Commentary] The Shaw Shaw Award for Astronomy 2020 is presented to Roger Branford, a professor at the School of Arts and Sciences at Stanford University.

　　[Concurrent period] Yang Gangkai, Chairman of the Shaw Shaw Awards Council and Vice Chairman of the Jury

　　The Shaw Shaw Award for Astronomy was presented to Roger Branford in recognition of his fundamental contribution to theoretical astrophysics, especially in the basic understanding of active galaxy nuclei, the formation and collimation of relativistic jets, and the energy of black holes Extraction mechanism and particle acceleration in shock waves and their related radiation mechanism.

　　[Commentary] The Shaw Shaw Life Science and Medicine Award in 2020 was awarded to Professor Glo Misenberg of the University of Oxford, Peter Hegman of the University of Humboldt in Berlin, Germany, and Professor Georg Neg of the University of Würzburg In recognition of the optogenetics they developed, a technology that revolutionized the development of neuroscience.

　　The Mathematical Science Award was awarded to Alexander Bellinson, a professor at the University of Chicago, and David Kazdan, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

　　[Concurrent period] Yang Gangkai, Chairman of the Shaw Shaw Awards Council and Vice Chairman of the Jury

　　The Shaw Shaw Mathematics Science Awards 2020 were evenly awarded to Alexander Bellinson and David Katzdan in recognition of their significant influence and profound contributions to representation theory and many other mathematical fields.

　　[Commentary] It is understood that the Shaw Shaw Award, an international award established in 2002, is awarded annually to recognize outstanding scientists in the world. This is also the first time that the Shaw Shaw Prize has been postponed.

　　Reporter Zheng Haoxi from Hong Kong

Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]