Japan Prize 1998: Winners

Recipients

1. Generation and Design of New Materials Creating Novel Functions

   Leo Esaki

   CS

   for the creation and realization of the concept of man-made superlattice crystals which led to generation of new materials with useful applications.

2. Biotechnology in Agricultural Sciences

   Jozef S. Schell, Marc C. E. Van Montagu

   Biology

   for the establishment of the theory and method of the production of transgenic plants.