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2020 Japan Prize Laureates Announced

Japan Prize 2020 (36th) Laureates

2020 Japan Prize Laureates Announced

"Electronics, Information, Communication" field

Achievement:
Pioneering contribution to information and coding theory

Prof. Robert G. Gallager

Prof. Robert G. Gallager (USA)

Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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"Life Science" field

Achievement:
Pioneering contributions to paleoanthropology through decoding ancient human genome sequences

Dr. Svante Pääbo

Dr. Svante Pääbo (Sweden)

Director, Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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