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 |
| Charles K. Kao |
Scientist |
4-Nov-1933 |
|
Fiber optics |
| 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 |
| Theodore Maiman |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1927 |
5-May-2007 |
Built the first working laser |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
| Ernst Mayr |
Biologist |
5-Jul-1904 |
3-Feb-2005 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| 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 |
10-Mar-2012 |
Ozone depletion |
