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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  NOVEMBER ~ MARCH
  Screening and Evaluation

  All candidates' achievements are carefully scrutinized and evaluated by the Selection Committee and foreign advisory scholars.

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  APRIL
  Announcement of Laureates

  Announcement of laureates are made in media following final evaluations and decisions by the Samsung Ho-Am Prize Committee.

• Katsuhiko Hayashi

  Professor,

  The University of Osaka,

  Japan

• Gang Tian

  Professor,

  Peking University,

  China

• Gerhard Huisken

  Professor,

  University of Tübingen,

  Germany

• Diana Bautista

  Professor,

  UC Berkeley,

  USA

• Daniel Kaplan

  Professor,

  University of Pittsburg,

  USA

• David Wineland

  Research Professor,

  University of Oregon,

  USA

• Donna Blackmond

  Professor,

  Scripps Research,

  USA

• Rodolphe Barrangou

  Distinguished Professor,

  North Carolina State University,

  USA

• Luciano Marraffini

  Professor,

  The Rockefeller University,

  USA

• Michael S. Okun

  Professor,

  University of Florida,

  USA

• Marc Raibert

  Executive Director,

  Robotics and AI Institute,

  USA

• Malin Parmar

  Professor,

  Lund University,

  Sweden

• Mihalis Dafermos

  Professor,

  Princeton University,

  USA

• Virginijus Šikšnys

  Professor,

  Vilnius University,

  Lithuania

• Seth Hutchinson

  Professor,

  Northeastern University,

  USA

• Shoji Takeuchi

  Professor,

  The University of Tokyo,

  Japan

• Stephen Quake

  Professor,

  Stanford University,

  USA

• Amir Mortazawi

  Professor,

  University of Michigan,

  USA

• Antonio Bicchi

  Professor,

  University of Pisa,

  Italy

• Ali Yazdani

  Professor,

  Princeton University,

  USA

• Alfonso Araque

  Professor,

  University of Minnesota,

  USA

• Yoshinori Tokura

  Distinguished Professor,

  The University of Tokyo,

  Japan

• Abby Dernburg

  Professor,

  UC Berkeley,

  USA

• Aymeric Robert

  Deputy Science Director,

  MAX IV Laboratory,

  Sweden

• Evan Snyder

  Professor,

  Sanford Burnham Prebys,

  USA

• Elisabet Stener-Victorin

  Professor,

  Karolinska Institute,

  Sweden

• Oussama Khatib

  Professor,

  Stanford University,

  USA

• Joseph Staudinger

  Faculty Associate,

  Arizona State University,

  USA

• George Neil

  Distinguished Consulting Scientist, xLight Inc.,

  USA

• John A. Rogers

  Professor,

  Northwestern University,

  USA

• Jin-Quan Yu

  Professor,

  Scripps Research,

  USA

• Chi-Chang Kao

  Professor,

  Stanford University,

  USA

• Qing Qin

  Distinguished Professor,

  Peking University,

  China

• Karl Jansen

  Director,

  DESY-Center for Quantum Technologies and Applications, Germany

• Clifford J. Woolf

  Professor,

  Harvard Medical School,

  USA

• Terence Tao

  Professor,

  UCLA,

  USA

• Tim Donohoe

  Professor,

  The University of Oxford,

  UK

• Francisco Quintana

  Professor,

  Harvard Medical School,

  USA

• Peter Lodahl

  Professor,

  University of Copenhagen,

  Denmark

• Peter Asbeck

  Professor Emeritus,

  UC San Diego,

  USA

• Peter Weber

  Professor,

  Brown University,

  USA

• Philippe Wernet

  Professor,

  Uppsala University,

  Sweden