2016 Japan Prize Honors Trailblazers in Material Science and Plant Breeding
Dr. Hideo Hosono challenged conventional wisdom by creating innovative materials;
Dr. Steven D. Tanksley laid the foundation for modern crop breeding
Achievement:
Creation of unconventional inorganic materials with novel electronic functions based on nano-structure engineering
Professor, Materials and Structures Laboratory,
Founding director, Materials Research Center for Element Strategy,
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Achievement:
Contribution to modern crop breeding through research on development of molecular genetic analysis
Professor Emeritus, Cornell University