Japan Prize

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Japan Prize

HONOR

Awarded by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan.

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Tim Berners-Lee Computer Programmer 8-Jun-1955 Inventor of the World Wide Web

Arvid Carlsson Scientist 25-Jan-1923 Signal transduction in the nervous system

Vint Cerf Scientist 23-Jun-1943 Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol

Elias James Corey Chemist 12-Jul-1928 Retrosynthetic analysis

Gerhard Ertl Chemist 10-Oct-1936 Auto emissions and the ozone layer

Leo Esaki Physicist 12-Mar-1925 Electron tunneling

Albert Fert Physicist 7-Mar-1938 Giant magnetoresistance

Robert C. Gallo Doctor 23-Mar-1937 Identified first retroviruses in humans

Peter Grünberg Physicist 18-May-1939 Giant magnetoresistance

Nick Holonyak Physicist 3-Nov-1928 Light-emitting diodes

Robert E. Kahn Scientist 23-Dec-1938 Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol

Ephraim Katzir Head of State 16-May-1916 30-May-2009 President of Israel, 1973-78

Willem Johan Kolff Scientist 14-Feb-1911 11-Feb-2009 Artificial kidney, artificial heart

Benoit Mandelbrot Mathematician 20-Nov-1924 Fractal mathematician

Victor A. McKusick Scientist 21-Oct-1921 22-Jul-2008 Father of medical genetics

Marvin Minsky Scientist 9-Aug-1927 Father of Artificial Intelligence

Luc Montagnier Scientist 18-Aug-1932 Co-Discoverer of HIV

Kary Mullis Chemist 28-Dec-1944 Nutball 1993 Nobel laureate

F. Sherwood Rowland Chemist 28-Jun-1927 Ozone depletion

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