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2023 Japan Prize Laureates Announced

Japan Prize 2023 Laureates

2023 Japan Prize Laureates Announced

"Electronics, Information, and Communication" field

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

Prof. Masataka Nakazawa

Prof. Masataka Nakazawa (Japan)

Distinguished Professor/Specially Appointed Professor, Tohoku University

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Mr. Kazuo Hagimoto

Mr. Kazuo Hagimoto (Japan)

Principal Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

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"Life Sciences" field

Achievement:
The development of methods that use genetically addressable light-sensitive membrane proteins to unravel neural circuit function

Prof. Gero Miesenböck

Prof. Gero Miesenböck (Austria)

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

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Prof. Karl Deisseroth

Prof. Karl Deisseroth (USA)

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

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