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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.
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.
- 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