Japan Prize 1990: Winners

Recipients

1. Technology of Integration- Design, Production and Control Technologies

   Marvin Minsky

   CS

   for the establishment of an academic field named Artificial Intelligence and the proposal of fundamental theories in that field.

2. Earth Science

   William Jason Morgan, Dan McKenzie, Xavier Le Pichon

   Earth Science

   for the initiation of the theory of plate tectonics and contributions to its development.