Albert Fert

Albert Fert

male
Japan Prize laureate, Wolf Prize, JapanPrize, Jülich Research Center, Giant magnetoresistive effect, physicist
Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of the Giant magnetoresistive effect which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte...

Peter Grünberg

male
Wolf Prize in Physics, JapanPrize, Japan Prize laureate, hard disk, Jülich Research Centre, Université de Paris Sud
Dr Peter Grünberg is a German physicist and one of the discoverers of the Giant magnetoresistive effect which brought about a breakthrough in g...
Kary Mullis

Kary Mullis

male, 64 years old (Berkeley, United States)
Nobel Prize, nobel, Kary Banks Mullis, paleontology, AIDS dissident, polymerase chain reaction…Japan Prize laureate, JapanPrize, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Kary Banks Mullis, Ph.D. (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Dr Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
James A. Yorke

James A. Yorke

male, 68 years old
Chaos theorist, Theoretical physicist, T.Y. Li, JapanPrize, chaotic system, Sharkovsky's theorem…Japan Prize laureate
James A. Yorke is a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a recipient of...
Nick Holonyak

Nick Holonyak

male, 81 years old
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, inventor, light-emitting diode, lasers, quantum-well laser…JapanPrize
Nick Holonyak Jr. was born in Zeigler, Illinois on November 3, 1928. Holonyak was John Bardeen's first PhD student at the University of Illinois at...

Akira Endo

male, 76 years old
Biochemist, JapanPrize, Japan Prize laureate, climatologist, cholesterol, fungus
Dr Akira Endo (born 14 November 1933) is a Japanese biochemist whose work on fungi and cholesterol led to the development of the highly successful...
Theodore Harold Maiman

Theodore Harold Maiman

male, deceased (2007)
Jewish American, Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman, The Laser Odyssey, scientist, American, Nobel Prize…Japan Prize laureate, JapanPrize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Wolf Prize in Physics recipient
Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman (July 11, 1927 - May 5, 2007) was an American physicist who made the first working laser. Maiman received the Japan...

Timothy R. Parsons

male, 77 years old
ecosystem approach, Colombo, Ceylon, Timothy Richard Parsons, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Royal Society of Canada, JapanPrize…Japan Prize laureate
Timothy Richard Parsons, O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C. (born 1932) is a Canadian oceanographer and the first Canadian to receive a Japan Prize. Born...
W. Wesley Peterson

W. Wesley Peterson

male
PhD, IEEE Centennial Medal, Cyclic Redundancy Check, Claude E. Shannon Award, error correcting codes, JapanPrize
W. Wesley Peterson, PhD, is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for inventing the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), for...
Elias James Corey

Elias James Corey

male, 81 years old
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty, JapanPrize, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, Harvard University faculty, organic synthesis, Nobel laureate in Chemistry…Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Japan Prize laureate
Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the...