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Recognition for the Ennoblement of the Human Sprit in Academics, The Arts, and Human Welfare

Screening and Selection

The Samsung Ho-Am Prize is presented each year on June 1st following a highly formal year-long process that includes nomination of candidates, establishment of Selection Committees, screening and evaluation, and announcement of selected candidates.

  • step1
    JUNE ~ JULY
    Nomination Forms sent out
    Official nomination forms are sent to selected persons at major university, research institutes and relevant organizations around the world.
  • step2
    AUGUST ~ OCTOBER
    Submission of Nomination
    The Samsung Ho-Am Prize Committee accepts candidate nominations by Oct. 31 of each year by regular mail or email.
  • step3
    NOVEMBER ~ MARCH
    Screening and Evaluation
    All candidates' achievements are carefully scrutinized and evaluated by the Selection Committee and foreign advisory scholars.
  • step4
    APRIL
    Announcement of Laureates
    Announcement of laureates are made in media following final evaluations and decisions by the Samsung Ho-Am Prize Committee.

2022 Selection Committee

Physics and
Mathematics
 

  • Myung-Hwan Kim
    Chairman
    Professor Emeritus
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Minhyong Kim
    Director
    ICMS, UK
     
  • Hee Su Park
    Principal Scientist
    KRISS
     
  • Zachary Fisk
    Research Professor
    UC Irvine, USA
  • Hyeonsik Cheong
    Professor
    Sogang Univ.
     
  • YoungJu Choie
    Professor
    POSTECH
     
  • Peter Sarnak
    Professor
    Princeton Univ.,
    USA
  • Seungjoon Hyun
    Professor
    Yonsei Univ.
     

Chemistry and
Life Sciences
 

  • Byeong Moon Kim
    Chairman
    Professor
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Kyung-Jin Kim
    Professor
    Kyungpook Nat'l Univ.
  • Sang Kyu Kim
    Professor
    KAIST
     
  • Young-Joon Kim
    Professor
    Yonsei Univ.
     
  • Seok Hee Park
    Professor
    Sungkyunkwan Univ.
  • Sven Lidin
    Professor
    Lund Univ., Sweden
  • Kwangyeol Lee
    Professor
    Korea Univ.
     
  • Tim Hunt
    Visiting Researcher
    OIST, Japan

Engineering
 
 

  • Jay Hyung Lee
    Chairman
    Professor
    KAIST
  • Dongsik Kim
    Professor
    POSTECH
     
  • Makoto Ikeda
    Professor
    The Univ. of Tokyo,
    Japan
  • Il Moon
    Professor
    Yonsei Univ.
     
  • Jin-wook Burm
    Professor
    Sogang Univ.
     
  • Yang Yang
    Professor
    UCLA, USA
  • Sungjoo Yoo
    Professor
    Seoul National Univ.
     
  • Chenyang Lu
    Chair Professor
    Washington Univ.,
    USA

Medicine
 
 

  • Young-Hyuck Im
    Chairman
    Professor
    Sungkyunkwan Univ.
  • Se Hoon Kim
    Professor
    Yonsei Univ.
     
  • Jong-Il Kim
    Professor
    Seoul National Univ.
     
  • Nils-Göran Larsson
    Professor
    Karolinska Institute,
    Sweden
  • Lars Thelander
    Professor Emeritus
    Umea Univ., Sweden
  • Michael Karin
    Distinguished Professor
    UC San Diego, USA
  • Dong Won Yang
    Professor
    The Catholic Univ.
    of Korea
  • Cheol Whan Lee
    Professor
    Univ. of Ulsan
     

The Arts
 
 

  • Sa-in Kim
    Chairman
    Literary Critic,
    Poet
  • Malborg Kim
    Professor Emeritus
    Ewha Womans Univ.
     
  • Duk-kyu Park
    Dean
    College of Arts
    Dankook Univ.
  • Youngtaek Park
    Professor
    Kyonggi Univ.
     
  • Sang Yong Sim
    Professor
    Seoul National Univ.
     
  • Jiesun Lim
    Dean
    College of Music
    Yonsei Univ.
  • Seung-chan Hong
    Professor
    Korea National Univ.
    of Arts

Community Service
 
 

  • Moo-Sung Chung
    Chairman
    Professor
    Soongsil Univ.
  • Sun Kyung Kang
    Professor
    Sogang Univ.
     
  • Young-A Soh
    Journalist
    Dong-A Ilbo Daily
     
  • Daeshik Jo
    Secretary General
    KCOC
     
  • Yong Hyun Jo
    Lawyer
    Lawfirm Class LLC.
     
  • Dong Woo Han
    Professor
    Kangnam Univ.
     
  • Joon Han
    Professor
    Yonsei Univ.
     

2022 Foreign Advisory Scholars

  • Gustavo Alonso
    Professor, ETH Zurich,
    Swiss
  • Michel Ledoux
    Emeritus Professor,
    Univ. of Toulouse, France
  • Y. Shirley Meng
    Chair Professor,
    UC San Diego, USA
  • Nicola Normanno
    Chief Researcher,
    Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Italy
  • Bengt Westermark
    Professor,
    Uppsala Univ., Sweden
  • Kentaro Sugano
    Professor,
    Jichi Medical Univ., Japan
  • Daniel Abadi
    Professor,
    Univ. of Maryland, USA
  • Bruno Silva-Santos
    Professor,
    Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
  • Stanley Whittingham
    Distinguished Professor,
    Binghamton Univ., USA
  • Leonid Polterovich
    Professor,
    Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
  • Vivienne Sze
    Professor, MIT,
    USA
  • Stanley Qi
    Professor,
    Stanford Univ., USA
  • Lu J. Sham
    Emeritus Professor,
    Lu J. Sham, USA
  • Vicente Arroyo
    Professor,
    Univ. of Barcelona, Spain
  • Stephen L. Buchwald
    Professor, MIT,
    USA
  • Richard A Gibbs
    Professor,
    Baylor College of Medicine, USA
  • Sabrina Diano
    Professor, Columbia Univ.,
    USA
  • Stephen A. Boppart
    Professor, Univ. of Illinois
    Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Martin Jinek
    Professor,
    Univ. of Zurich, Swiss
  • Simon Donaldson
    Research Professor,
    Imperial College London, UK
  • Arnold Kriegstein
    Professor, UC San Francisco,
    USA
  • Mung Chiang
    Executive Vice President,
    Purdue Univ., USA
  • Shaul Mukamel
    Distinguished Professor,
    UC Irvine, USA
  • Anton Zeilinger
    President,
    Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
  • Allan H. MacDonald
    Professor,
    The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Ian A. Walmsley
    Provost,
    Imperial College London, UK
  • Kevin Jeffay
    Distinguished Professor,
    Univ. of North Carolina, USA
  • Jacob E. Corn
    Professor, ETH Zurich,
    Swiss
  • Ian F. Akyildiz
    President, Truva Inc.,
    USA
  • Tadahiro Kuroda
    Professor,
    The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
  • Yet-Ming Chiang
    Professor, MIT,
    USA
  • Giacomo Indiveri
    Professor,
    Univ. of Zurich, Swiss
  • Tamas Horvath
    Professor,
    Yale Univ., USA
  • Ofer Zeitouni
    Professor,
    Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Jay Shendure
    Professor,
    Univ. of Washington, USA
  • Terence Tao
    Professor,
    UCLA, USA
  • Oliver Graydon
    Chief Editor,
    Nature Photonics, UK
  • Jonathan Kipnis
    Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff
    Distinguished Professor,
    Washington Univ., USA
  • Peter Malfertheiner
    Professor, Otto von Guericke
    Univ. Magdeburg, Germany
  • William Ber
    Professor,
    King’s College London, UK
  • Joel Elmquist
    Professor,
    UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
  • Peter F. Stadler
    Professor,
    Univ. of Leipzig, Germany
  • William D. Chey
    Professor,
    Univ. of Michigan, USA
  • Masaru Kitsuregawa
    Professor,
    The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
  • Peter E. Andersen
    Professor,
    Technical Univ. of Denmark
  • William Hahn
    Professor,
    Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Kathy McCoy
    Professor,
    Univ. of Calgary, Canada