International Biology Prize
The International Prize for Biology ( Jap. 国際生物学賞 , Kokusai Seibutsugaku-shō ) is since 1985 by the "Japan Society for the Promotion of Science" ( Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkokai , English. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ), one of the Science Ministry assigned Self-governing body, awarded annually to an international biologist . It is endowed with 10 million yen .
Award winners
- 1985 Edred John Henry Corner , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 1986 Peter H. Raven , Missouri Botanical Garden, USA
- 1987 John B. Gurdon , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 1988 Motoo Kimura , National Institute of Genetics, Japan
- 1989 Eric Denton , Plymouth, United Kingdom
- 1990 Masakazu Konishi , California Institute of Technology, USA
- 1991 Marshall Davidson Hatch , CSIRO, Australia
- 1992 Knut Schmidt-Nielsen , Duke University, USA
- 1993 Edward O. Wilson , Harvard University, USA
- 1994 Ernst Mayr , Harvard University, USA
- 1995 Ian Read Gibbons , University of Hawaii, USA
- 1996 Ryūzō Yanagimachi , University of Hawaii, USA
- 1997 Elliot Meyerowitz , California Institute of Technology, USA
- 1998 Otto Thomas Solbrig , Harvard University, USA
- 1999 Setsuro Ebashi , University of Tokyo and National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
- 2000 Seymour Benzer , California Institute of Technology, USA
- 2001 Harry Blackmore Whittington , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 2002 Masatoshi Nei , Pennsylvania State University, USA
- 2003 Shinya Inoué , Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA
- 2004 Thomas Cavalier-Smith , University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- 2005 Nam-Hai Chua , Rockefeller University, USA
- 2006 Serge Daan , University of Groningen, Netherlands
- 2007 David S. Hogness , Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
- 2008 David Tilman , University of Minnesota, USA
- 2009 Winslow Russell Briggs , Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA
- 2010 Nancy Ann Moran , Yale University, USA
- 2011 Eric Harris Davidson , California Institute of Technology, USA
- 2012 Joseph Altman , Purdue University, USA
- 2013 Joseph Felsenstein , University of Washington, USA
- 2014 Peter Crane , Yale University, USA
- 2015 Yoshinori Ohsumi , Tōkyō Kōgyō Daigaku, Japan
- 2016 Stephen P. Hubbell , University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- 2017 Rita Rossi Colwell , University of Maryland, USA
- 2018 Andrew Herbert Knoll , Harvard University, USA
- 2019 Naomi Ellen Pierce , Harvard University, USA
Web links
- www.jsps.go.jp (English)