Harvard University has academic or professional ties to more Tang Prize winners than any other institution, and seven recipients of the biennial Taiwan-based award have gone on to be Nobel laureates, the Tang Prize Foundation said on Tuesday.
The Tang Prize, which spans four categories — sustainable development, biopharmaceutical science, Sinology and rule of law — has named 45 winners since its establishment in 2012, including three nongovernmental organizations.
An analysis conducted after the announcement of this year’s winners last month found that 11 had academic or professional ties to Harvard, accounting for about 26 percent of the 42 winners, the foundation said.
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Yale University, Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley were each linked to five winners.
Oxford University and the University of California, San Diego each had ties to four.
The analysis also found that 11 of the prize’s 42 winners, or about 26 percent, were women.
The foundation said the figure was “significantly higher” than the 6.5 percent recorded among Nobel laureates.
The comparison partly reflects the historical context of the Nobel Prizes, which were first awarded in 1901, when women had fewer opportunities to participate in academia and scientific research.
Meanwhile, six biopharmaceutical science winners from three Tang Prize cohorts later received Nobel prizes.
They were joined by Omar Yaghi, a recipient of the 2024 Tang Prize in sustainable development, who won last year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, bringing the number of Tang Prize winners who later became Nobel laureates to seven.
The Tang Prize was established in 2012 by the late Taiwanese entrepreneur Samuel Yin (尹衍樑) to honor people and organizations that have made outstanding contributions in the four categories.
Each category carries a cash award of NT$40 million (US$1.2 million), along with an additional NT$10 million in research funding.
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