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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.
- JUNE ~ JULY
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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.
- AUGUST ~ OCTOBER
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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.
- NOVEMBER ~ MARCH
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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.
- APRIL
Physics and
Mathematics
- Hyungju Park
- Chairman
- Distinguished Professor Ajou Univ.
- Dae Joon Kang
- Professor
- Sungkyunkwan Univ.
- Inkyu Park
- Professor
- Univ. of Seoul
- Yong-Geun Oh
- Director, IBS-CGP
- & Professor, POSTECH
- Fabian Rotermund
- Professor
- KAIST
- Jinhyoung Lee
- Professor
- Hanyang Univ.
- Paul McEuen
- Professor
- Cornell Univ., USA
- Peter Sarnak
- Professor
- Princeton Univ., USA
Chemistry and
Life Sciences
- Jinwoo Cheon
- Chairman
- H.G. Underwood Professor Yonsei Univ.
- Kyungjae Myung
- Distinguished
- Professor UNIST
- Mu-Hyun Baik
- Professor
- KAIST
- Sven Lidin
- Professor
- Lund Univ., Sweden
- Aaron Ciechanover
- Distinguished Research
- Professor Technion, Israel
- Young Ho Rhee
- Professor
- POSTECH
- Hee-Jung Choi
- Professor
- Seoul National Univ.
- Cheol-Sang Hwang
- Eminent Professor
- Korea Univ.
Engineering
- Sang Yup Lee
- Chairman
- Distinguished Professor KAIST
- Chulwoo Kim
- Professor
- Korea Univ.
- Sung-Hoon Ahn
- Professor
- Seoul National Univ.
- Yang Yang
- Chair Professor
- UCLA, USA
- Chong Seung Yoon
- Professor
- Hanyang Univ.
- Sung-Bae Cho
- Distinguished Professor
- Yonsei Univ.
- Chenyang Lu
- Chair Professor
- Washington Univ., USA
- Krishna Saraswat
- Professor
- Stanford Univ., USA
Medicine
- Suk Woo Nam
- Chairman
- Professor Catholic Univ.
- Nils-Goran Larsson
- Professor
- Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- Randy Schekman
- Professor
- UC Berkeley, USA
- Matthew Heiden
- Professor
- MIT, USA
- Jee-Yin Ahn
- Professor
- Sungkyunkwan Univ.
- Seock-Ah Im
- Professor
- Seoul National Univ.
- Jae-Ho Cheong
- Professor
- Yonsei Univ.
- Chul Hyun Joo
- Professor
- Univ. of Ulsan
The Arts
- Seung-chan Hong
- Chairman
- Professor Korea National Univ. of Arts
- Seongwoo Kwon
- Professor
- Sookmyung Women’s Univ.
- Heeduk Ra
- Professor
- Seoul National Univ. of Science & Technology
- Jung-Ah Woo
- Professor
- POSTECH
- Jinsang Yoo
- Professor
- Kaywon Univ. of Art & Design
- Yun-Yeong Lee
- Professor
- Yonsei Univ.
- Injoo Chang
- Dance Critic
Community Service
- Do Seon Eur
- Chairman
- Professor Korea Univ.
- Ok Sik Park
- Chairman
- Global Good Friends
- Jung Min Park
- Professor
- Seoul National Univ.
- Sungkyu Lee
- Professor
- Soongsil Univ.
- Jin-yeong Lee
- Editorial Writer
- Dong-A Ilbo Daily
- Yong Hyun Jo
- Lawyer
- Lawfirm Class Hankyul
- Hyunju Cho
- Executive Director
- Global Civic Sharing
- Gregory C. Fu
- Professor,
- California Institute of Technology,USA
- Michael Harris
- Professor,
- Columbia Univ., USA
- Shaul Mukamel
- Distinguished Professor,
- UC Irvine,USA
- Graham R. Fleming
- Professor,
- UC Berkeley,USA
- Majed Chergui
- Honorary Professor,
- EPFL,Swiss
- Subir Sarkar
- Professor Emeritus,
- Univ. of Oxford, UK
- Nicolas Gisin
- Professor Emeritus,
- Univ. of Geneva, Swiss
- Mark Horowitz
- Professor,
- Stanford Univ., USA
- Xuemin Shen
- Professor,
- Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
- Daniel Mucida
- Professor,
- The Rockefeller Univ., USA
- Michel Ledoux
- Professor Emeritus,
- Univ. of Toulouse, France
- R. Stanley Williams
- Professor,
- Texas A&M Univ., USA
- David A. Nicewicz
- Kenan Distinguished
- Professor, Univ. of North Carolina, USA
- Ben E. Black
- Professor,
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
- Eilika Weber-Ban
- Professor,
- ETH Zurich, Swiss
- Robert W. Heath
- Professor,
- UC San Diego, USA
- Bruno Silva-Santos
- Professor,
- Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
- Andrea Musacchio
- Director, Max Planck
- Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
- Rui P. Martins
- Chair Professor,
- Univ. of Macau, China
- Vijay Rathinam
- Associate Professor,
- Univ. of Connecticut, USA
- Antonio Torralba
- Professor,
- MIT, USA
- Richard Zare
- Marguerite Blake Wilbur
- Professor, Stanford Univ., USA
- Vincent Poor
- Michael Henry Strater Univ.
- Professor, Princeton Univ., USA
- Andrew G. Bowie
- Professor,
- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Masahiro Teshima
- Professor,
- Max Planck Institute of Physics, Germany
- Bill O’Neill
- Professor,
- Univ. of Cambridge, UK
- Jan Van Deursen
- Cofounder,
- Unity Biotechnology, USA
- Michael Maurizi
- Scientist Emeritus,
- National Institutes of Health, USA
- Sarkis K. Mazmanian
- Professor,
- California Institute of Technology, USA
- Evan Eichler
- Professor,
- Univ. of Washington, USA
- Jun Ye
- Professor,
- Univ. of Colorado Boulder, USA
- Jen Sheen
- Professor,
- Harvard Medical School, USA
- Terry Rudolph
- Professor,
- Imperial College London, UK
- Ofer Zeitouni
- Professor,
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Jonathan Kipnis
- Professor,
- Washington Univ., USA
- Theodor W. Hänsch
- Professor, Ludwig Maximilian
- Univ. of Munich, Germany
- Oliver Graydon
- Chief Editor,
- Nature Photonics, UK
- John F. Hartwig
- Professor,
- UC Berkeley, USA
- Paul Jarvis
- Professor,
- Univ. of Oxford, UK
- Wojciech Samek
- Professor,
- Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany
- Judy Van de Water
- Professor,
- UC Davis, USA
- Franco Maloberti
- Professor,
- Pavia Univ., Italy
- Wendy Bickmore
- Professor,
- Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
- Chao-Yang Lu
- Professor, Univ. of
- Science and Technology of China, China
- Peter J. de Groot
- Scientist Emeritus,
- Zygo Corporation, USA
- Jürgen Ruland
- Professor,
- Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany
- Karl-Heinz Kampert
- Professor,
- Univ. of Wuppertal, Germany
- Henri Darmon
- Distinguished James McGill
- Professor, McGill Univ., Canada
- Yun Chiu
- Erik Jonsson Distinguished
- Professor, Univ. of Texas, USA
- Casper Hoogenraad
- Vice President,
- Genentech, USA
- Jose M. Pardo
- Researcher,
- Spanish National Research Council, Spain
- Ngô Bảo Châu
- Francis and Rose Yuen
- Distinguished Service Professor, Univ. of Chicago, USA
- Kathy McCoy
- Professor,
- Univ. of Calgary, Canada
- Guus Rijnders
- Professor,
- Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
- Ian A. Walmsley
- Provost,
- Imperial College London, UK
- Klaus-Robert Müller
- Professor,
- Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany
- Jean-Marc Triscone
- Professor,
- Univ. of Geneva, Swiss
- Terence Tao
- Professor,
- UCLA, USA