Japan Prize

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The Japan Prize is awarded to people from all parts of the world whose "original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind."

Explanation

It is presented by The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. The prize consists of a certificate, a commemorative medal and a cash award of approximately 50 million yen (about USD$450,000). Only living individuals may be nominated for the prize.

A complete list of laureates:

2006 John Houghton, Akira Endo
2005 Makoto Nagao, Masatoshi Takeichi, and Erkki Ruoslahti
2004 Kenichi Honda, Akira Fujishima, Keith J. Sainsbury, and John H. Lawton
2003 Benoît Mandelbrot, James A. Yorke, and Seiji Ogawa
2002 Tim Berners-Lee, Anne McLaren, and Andrzej K. Tarkowski
2001 John B. Goodenough and Timothy R. Parsons
2000 Ian L. McHarg and Kimishige Ishizaka
1999 W. Wesley Peterson, Jack L. Strominger, and Don C. Wiley
1998 Leo Esaki, Jozef S. Schell, and Marc C. E. Van Montagu
1997 Takashi Sugimura, Bruce N. Ames, Joseph F. Engelberger, and Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
1996 Charles K. Kao and Masao Ito
1995 Nick Holonyak, Jr. and Edward F. Knipling
1994 William Hayward Pickering and Arvid Carlsson
1993 Frank Press and Kary B. Mullis
1992 Gerhard Ertl and Ernest John Christopher Polge
1991 Jacques - Louis Lions and John Julian Wild
1990 Marvin Minsky, William Jason Morgan, Dan Peter Mckenzie, and Xavier Le Pichon
1989 Frank Sherwood Rowland and Elias James Corey
1988 Georges Vendryes, Donald A. Henderson, Isao Arita, Frank Fenner, Luc Montagnier, and Robert C. Gallo
1987 Henry M. Beachell, Gurdev S. Khush, and Theodore H. Maiman
1986 David Turnbull and Willem J. Kolff
1985 John R. Pierce and Ephraim Katchalski

External link

[The Japan Prize website]

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