Kip Thorne
Thirteen Nobel laureates—Jules Hoffmann, Bruce Beutler, Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, Shinya Yamanaka, Robert Lefkowitz , Brian Schmidt, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, P. James E. Peebles, Michel Mayor and Reinhard Genzel —were previous laureates of the Shaw Prize.