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Nile Rodgers
United States of America
"Dance music has been played for thousands of years. However, there are few in history, if any, who have composed dance music as sophisticated and subtly arranged as Nile Rodgers. It is fitting that his group was named Chic: elegance is part of his musical hallmark. As a composer, producer and guitarist, Nile Rodgers turned disco and funk into an art form. His chop chord style of guitar playing, which he calls chucking, creates a hypnotic swing that has kept millions grooving on the dance floor. The songs created by Nile Rodgers for Chic, Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Madonna, Daft Punk and many others are so well-crafted that they will outlive us all."
June Huh,
United States of America
For bringing the ideas of Hodge theory to combinatorics, the proof of the Dowling–Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices, the proof of the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture for matroids, the development of the theory of Lorentzian polynomials, and the proof of the strong Mason conjecture.
Iggy Pop
United States of America
"With his era-defining group The Stooges, Iggy Pop created furious rock music by blending together blues and free jazz influences with the roar of the Michigan automotive industry. With his courage, initiative and raw power, Iggy Pop paved the way for punk and post-punk. Groups like the Sex Pistols, Ramones, Blondie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and Nick Cave all followed in his footsteps. As a solo artist, Iggy Pop has never slowed down, and has instead pushed this art form forwards for half a century. Iggy Pop is 'the chairman of the bored' who portrays alienation in poetic language. A wholly unique artist who personifies and embodies what rock music is about."
Hungary,
Israel,
Russian Federation,
Diane Warren
United States of America
"Her pop songs embody the rare combination of being catchy and yet complex enough to be heard hundreds of times, and still resonate with the listener. Diane Warren is the founder of Realsongs, the most successful female-owned music publisher in the world. As a singer, to be given a Diane Warren song, is a gift."
Grandmaster Flash
United States of America
"Grandmaster Flash is a scientist and a virtuoso who has demonstrated that turntables and mixing consoles can be musical instruments. His adventures at the turntables – "the Adventures of the Wheels of Steel" – changed the course of popular music."
Playing for Change
United States of America
"...a global project with 15 music schools and programs around the world that have impacted the lives of over 15,000 children and their surrounding communities. The Playing For Change Foundation shows how music can be used to inspire, build bridges between people, create positive change, and conditions for peace."
Canada,
Metallica
United States of America
"Not since Wagner's emotional turmoil and Tchaikovsky's cannons has anyone created music that is so physical and furious, and yet still so accessible."
Wayne Shorter
United States of America
"[...]he has written a number of the most enduring compositions in the history of jazz. Without the musical explorations of Wayne Shorter, modern music would not have drilled so deep."
Emmylou Harris
United States of America
"The music of Emmylou Harris contains the history and topography of the entire American continent."
Chuck Berry
United States of America
"...Chuck Berry was the rock'n'roll pioneer who turned the electric guitar into the main instrument of rock music."
Peter Sellars
United States of America
"...Peter Sellars shows us that classical music is not about dusty sheet music and metronomic precision, but that classical music, with its violent power and complexity, has fundamentally always been and will continue to be a way of reflecting and depicting the world."
Paul Simon
United States of America
"...Nobody else is more deserving of the epithet of "world-class songwriter." For five decades, Paul Simon has built bridges not only over troubled waters but over entire oceans by (re)joining the world's continents with his music."
Yo-Yo Ma
United States of America
"...Yo-Yo Ma has dedicated his virtuosity and his heart to journeys of musical exploration and discovery around the world."
Kronos Quartet
United States of America
"...For almost 40 years, the Kronos Quartet has been revolutionising the potential of the string quartet genre when it comes to both style and content."
Patti Smith
United States of America
"...Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock'n'roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock'n'roll."
Renée Fleming
United States of America
"...in recognition of her sublime unparalleled voice and unique stylistic versatility. [People] have been dazzled by the beauty of her soft and natural voice."
Sonny Rollins
United States of America
"...Sonny Rollins has elevated the unaccompanied solo to the highest artistic level – all characterised by a distinctive and powerful sound, irresistible swing and an individual musical sense of humour."
Steve Reich
United States of America
"...The award recognises his unique ability to use repeats, canon technique and minimal variation of patterns to develop an entire universe of evocative music, endowed with immediate tonal beauty."
Hong Kong
Keith Jarrett
United States of America
"...for his outstanding musical contributions in fields as diverse as classical interpretation and jazz improvisation."
Burt Bacharach
United States of America
"...Bacharach has been a principal player on the international music scene since his debut in the late 1950s, producing a host of timeless classics stemming from his infallible feeling for powerful, memorable and unmistakably personal melodies and for brilliantly designed harmony."
Robert Moog
United States of America
"...for his design of the MiniMoog, the first compact, easy-to-use synthesizer, which paved the way to the realm of electronic sounds that has revolutionised all genres of music during the past half-century."
Bob Dylan
United States of America
"...his achievements encompass almost four decades of constantly changing modes of creativity, always innovative, but always based on American musical traditions and roots."
Isaac Stern
United States of America
"...for a unique and consummate artistry distinguished by a personal musicianship without compare for over half a century, for his pioneering achievement on behalf of young people the world over, for his patient and energetic commitment to preserving and developing places where music is played, and for his uncompromising attitude concerning the humanistic power of music."
Stevie Wonder
United States of America
"...for a unique career as a singer, composer and stage artist."
Curtis T. Mcmullen,
United States of America
He has made important contributions to various branches of the theory ofdynamical systems, such as the algorithmic study of polynomial equations, the study of the distribution of the points of a lattice of aLie group,hyperbolic geometry,holomorphic dynamicsand the renormalization of maps of the interval.
Ray Charles
United States of America
"...one of the leading figures of soul music and an important stylistic innovator with an unusual diversity of musical roots ... a man whose presence, ever since the 1950s, has been perceptible behind generations of innumerable pop musicians and singers."
Bruce Springsteen
United States of America
"...for an outstanding career as singer and stage performer."
Dizzy Gillespie
United States of America
"...Closely familiar with the origins and roots of jazz, and perceiving its fertile development out of a variety of musical cultures, Dizzy Gillespie came on the scene, almost half a century ago, as a revolutionary innovator."
Ukraine
Edward Witten, 1951年 - ）
United States of America
proof in 1981 of the positive energy theorem ingeneral relativity
Bangladesh
Michael H. Freedman,
United States of America
Developed new methods for topological analysis of four-manifolds. One of his results is a proof of the four-dimensionalPoincaré Conjecture.
Korea (the Republic of)
William P. Thurston, 1946年 - 2012年）
United States of America
Revolutionized study oftopologyin 2 and 3 dimensions, showing interplay between analysis, topology, and geometry. Contributed idea that a very large class of closed 3-manifolds carry a hyperbolic structure.
Shing-Tung Yau, 1949年 - ）
United States of America
Made contributions indifferential equations, also to theCalabi conjectureinalgebraic geometry, to the positive mass conjecture ofgeneral relativity theory, and to real and complex Monge-Ampère equations.
Charles Louis Fefferman,
United States of America
Contributed several innovations that revised the study of multidimensionalcomplex analysisby finding correct generalizations of classical (low-dimensional) results.
Daniel G. Quillen,
United States of America
The prime architect of the higheralgebraic K-theory, a new tool that successfully employed geometric and topological methods and ideas to formulate and solve major problems in algebra, particularlyring theoryandmodule theory.
John Griggs Thompson,
United States of America
Proved jointly with W. Feit that all non-cyclic finitesimple groupshave even order. The extension of this work by Thompson determined the minimal simple finite groups, that is, the simple finite groups whose proper subgroups aresolvable.
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
United States of America,
Philippines
Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere (CARE)
United States of America,
Philippines
Paul Joseph Cohen,
United States of America
Used technique called "forcing" to prove the independence inset theoryof theaxiom of choiceand of thegeneralized continuum hypothesis. The latter problem was the first ofHilbert's problemsof the 1900 Congress.
Stephen Smale,
United States of America
Worked indifferential topologywhere he proved the generalizedPoincaré conjecturein dimension n≥5: Every closed, n-dimensional manifoldhomotopy-equivalentto then-dimensional sphereishomeomorphicto it. Introduced the method ofhandle-bodiesto solve this and related problems.
India
John Willard Milnor, 1931年 - ）
United States of America
Proved that a 7-dimensionalspherecan have several differential structures; this led to the creation of the field ofdifferential topology.
Thailand
Jesse Douglas,
United States of America
Did important work of the Plateau problem which is concerned with finding minimal surfaces connecting and determined by some fixed boundary.