2023 Japan Prize Laureates Announced
2023 Japan Prize Laureates Announced
Achievement:
Distinguished contributions to global long-distance, high-capacity optical fiber network through the development of semiconductor laser pumped optical amplifier

Distinguished Professor/Specially Appointed Professor, Tohoku University

Principal Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Achievement:
The development of methods that use genetically addressable light-sensitive membrane proteins to unravel neural circuit function

Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford

Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Psychiatry,
and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University