Japan Prize

Japan Prize 1988: Winners

Recipients

  1. Energy Technology

    Georges Vendryes

    CS

    for the establishment of fast breeder reactor technology.

  2. Preventative Medicine

    Donald Henderson, Isao Arita, Frank Fenner

    Biology

    for the eradication of Smallpox.

  3. Preventative Medicine

    Luc Montagnier, Robert C. Gallo

    Biology

    for the discovery of the AIDS-causing virus and development of diagnostic methods.