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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
- Junegone Chay
- Chair
- Professor,
- Korea Univ.
- Do-Kyeong Ko
- Professor,
- GIST
- Minhyong Kim
- Director,
- International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, UK
- Changyoung Kim
- Professor,
- Seoul National Univ.
- Yongnam Lee
- Professor,
- KAIST
- Jinhyoung Lee
- Professor,
- Hanyang Univ.
- Paul McEuen
- Professor Emeritus,
- Cornell Univ., USA
- Peter Sarnak
- Professor,
- Princeton Univ., USA
Chemistry and
Life Sciences
- Jinwoo Cheon
- Chair
- H.G. Underwood Professor, Yonsei Univ. & Director, IBS
- Kyung-Jin Kim
- Professor,
- Kyungpook National Univ.
- Seung Bum Park
- Professor,
- Seoul National Univ.
- Chul-Seung Park
- Professor,
- GIST
- Sven Lidin
- Professor,
- Lund Univ., Sweden
- Aaron Ciechanover
- Distinguished Research
- Professor,
- Technion, Israel
- Yunje Cho
- Professor,
- POSTECH
- Insung S. Choi
- Professor,
- KAIST
Engineering
- Sung-Bae Cho
- Chair
- H.G. Underwood Professor,
- Yonsei Univ.
- Dennis Sylvester
- Professor,
- Univ. of Michigan, USA
- Sung-Hoon Ahn
- Professor,
- Seoul National Univ.
- Yang Yang
- Chair Professor,
- UCLA, USA
- Moon-Ho Jo
- Mueunjae Chair
- Professor,
- POSTECH
- Seonghwan Cho
- Professor,
- KAIST
- Klaus-Robert Müller
- Professor,
- Technical Univ. of
- Berlin, Germany
- Woo Seok Choe
- Professor, Sungkyunkwan
- Univ.
Medicine
- Suk Woo Nam
- Chair
- Professor,
- The Catholic Univ.
- of Korea
- Nils-Göran Larsson
- Professor,
- Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- Randy Schekman
- Professor,
- UC Berkeley, USA
- Matthew Heiden
- Professor,
- MIT, USA
- Youngsup Song
- Professor,
- Univ. of Ulsan
- Sang-Won Um
- Professor,
- Sungkyunkwan Univ.
- Jae-Ho Cheong
- Professor,
- Yonsei Univ.
- Kyungho Choi
- Professor,
- Seoul National Univ.
The Arts
- Seung-chan Hong
- Chair
- Professor,
- Korea National
- Univ. of Arts
- Heeduk Ra
- Professor,
- Seoul National Univ. of Science and Technology
- Eungi Min
- Professor,
- Seoul National Univ.
- Jeong Houn Son
- Professor,
- Ajou Univ.
- Yun-Yeong Lee
- Professor,
- Yonsei Univ.
- Jinsuk Lee
- Art Critic
- Injoo Chang
- Dance Critic
Community Service
- Do Seon Eur
- Chair
- Professor,
- Korea Univ.
- Jung Min Park
- Professor,
- Seoul National Univ.
- Sungkyu Lee
- Professor,
- Soongsil Univ.
- Seonghee Chung
- Former Editorial Writer,
- The Dong-A Ilbo
- Yong Hyun Jo
- Lawyer,
- Law Firm ClassHankyul
- Wonki Choi
- Chairman,
- Korea Association for Culture and Art Education Service
- Choonghee Hahn
- Former Deputy Ambassador,
- United Nations
- Katsuhiko Hayashi
- Professor,
- The Univ. of Osaka, Japan
- Rui P. Martins
- Chair Professor,
- Univ. of Macau, China
- Valina L. Dawson
- Professor,
- Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
- Kaoru Minoshima
- Vice-President,
- The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan
- Liang Jiang
- Professor,
- Univ. of Chicago, USA
- Ben E. Black
- Eldridge R. Johnson Foundation Professor,
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
- Guido Kroemer
- Professor,
- Paris Cité Univ. France
- Richard Wade-Martins
- Professor,
- Univ. of Oxford, UK
- Vojo Deretic
- Distinguished Professor,
- Univ. of New Mexico, USA
- Graham R. Fleming
- Professor,
- UC Berkeley,USA
- Richard J. Youle
- Distinguished Investigator,
- National Institutes of Health, USA
- Wolfgang Osten
- Chief Editor,
- Light: Advanced Manufacturing, China
- Noboru Mizushima
- Professor,
- The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
- Richard Zare
- Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor,
- Stanford Univ., USA
- Vijay Rathinam
- Professor,
- Univ. of Connecticut, USA
- Darrell G. Schlom
- Tisch Univ. Professor,
- Cornell Univ., USA
- Michael Devine
- Clinician Scientist,
- Francis Crick Institute, UK
- Bill O’Neill
- Professor,
- Univ. of Cambridge, UK
- David Wineland
- Philip H. Knight Distinguished
- Research Chair Research Professor,
- Univ. of Oregon, USA
- Michael Harris
- Professor,
- Columbia Univ., USA
- Wilhelm Schlag
- Professor,
- Yale Univ., USA
- Raymond Laflamme
- Professor,
- Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
- Majed Chergui
- Professor Emeritus,
- EPFL, Switzerland
- Shaul Mukamel
- Distinguished Professor,
- UC Irvine, USA
- Lorenzo Galluzzi
- Professor,
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA
- Mark Horowitz
- Professor,
- Stanford Univ., USA
- Sarkis K. Mazmanian
- Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor,
- California Institute of Technology, USA
- Robert B. Darnell
- Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor,
- The Rockefeller Univ., USA
- Mitsutoshi Yoneyama
- Professor,
- Chiba Univ., Japan
- Shuang Zhang
- Chair Professor,
- The Univ. of Hong Kong, China
- Stephen D. Bartlett
- Professor,
- Univ. of Sydney, Australia
- Eduardo Tolosa
- Professor Emeritus,
- Univ. of Barcelona, Spain
- Terence Tao
- Professor,
- UCLA, USA
- Stephen A. Boppart
- Professor,
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Evan Snyder
- Professor,
- Sanford Burnham Prebys, USA
- Theodor W. Hänsch
- Professor,
- Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Munich, Germany
- Shingo Kajimura
- Professor,
- Harvard Medical School, USA
- Jürgen Ruland
- Professor,
- Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany
- Pavan Hanumolu
- Professor,
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Shing-Tung Yau
- Professor,
- Tsinghua Univ., China
- Yun Chiu
- Erik Jonsson Distinguished
- Professor,
- Univ. of Texas, USA
- Francisco J. Quintana
- Professor,
- Harvard Medical School, USA
- Aydogan Ozcan
- Chancellor’s Professor,
- UCLA, USA
- Ngô Bảo Châu
- Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Service Professor,
- Univ. of Chicago, USA
- Franco Maloberti
- Professor Emeritus,
- Univ. of Pavia, Italy
- Andrea Musacchio
- Director,
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
- Jean-Marc Triscone
- Professor,
- Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
- Peter de Groot
- Scientist Emeritus,
- Zygo Corporation, USA
- Alfonso Araque
- Professor,
- Univ. of Minnesota, USA
- Jack Thorne
- Kuwait Professor,
- Univ. of Cambridge, UK
- Peter Lodahl
- Professor,
- Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Henri Darmon
- Distinguished James McGill Professor,
- McGill Univ., Canada
- Jonathan Kipnis
- Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor,
- Washington Univ., USA
- Peter E. Andersen
- Senior Researcher,
- Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
- Andrew G. Bowie
- Professor,
- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Karl Jansen
- Director,
- DESY-Center for Quantum Technologies and Applications, Germany
- Peter Uhd Jepsen
- Professor,
- Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
- Jan Van Deursen
- Cofounder,
- Unity Biotechnology, USA
- Carlos E. Kenig
- Louis Block Distinguished
- Service Professor,
- Univ. of Chicago, USA
- Guus Rijnders
- Professor,
- Univ. of Twente,
- Netherlands