Technology Awarded
Technology Awarded
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Stuart ParkinStuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (9 Dec, 1955) is an experimental physicist, IBM Fellow and manager of the magnetoelectronics group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. .. | Millennium Technology Prize | 2014 |
Watford England United Kingdom |
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Shinya YamanakaShinya Yamanaka (born September 4, 1962) is a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning stem cell researcher.He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and .. | Millennium Technology Prize | 2012 |
Higashi-ōsaka Ōsaka Japan |
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Linus TorvaldsLinus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel that became the most popular .. | Millennium Technology Prize | 2012 |
Dunthorpe Oregon United States |
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Yutaka TakahasiTakahasi, born in 1927, a professor of the University of Tokyo, urged in the 1970s a drastic change in water control policies that were focused on physical infrastructure such as banks. He .. | Japan Prize | 2015 |
Tokyo Tōkyō Japan |
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Theodore FriedmannFriedmann, 79, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, proposed the concept of gene therapy in the 1970s and pioneered the early phase of bas.. | Japan Prize | 2015 |
San Diego California United States |
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Alain FischerAlain Fischer, 65, director of Institut Imagine in Paris, a leading research institute on genetic diseases, and professor at Collge de France, used hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy to tr.. | Japan Prize | 2015 |
Paris Île-de-France France |
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Yasuharu SuematsuYasuharu Suematsu is a scientist, who received the Japan Prize and several other notable awards.He received Japan Prize in 2014 for pioneering research on semiconductor lasers for high-capac.. | Japan Prize | 2014 |
Gifu-shi Gifu Japan |
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Charles David AllisCharles David Allis (born March 22, 1951) is an American molecular biologist, and is currently the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenet.. | Japan Prize | 2014 |
New York City New York United States |
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Jimmy WalesJimmy Wales (born August 7, 1966)is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit Wikia web h.. | Dan David Prize | 2015 |
London England United Kingdom |
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Leonard KleinrockLeonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American engineer and computer scientist. A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, he .. | BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award | 2014 |
Los Angeles California United States |