Japan Prize 2023: Winners

Recipients

1. Electronics, Information, and Communication

   Masataka Nakazawa, Kazuo Hagimoto

   CS

   for distinguished contributions to global long-distance, high-capacity optical fiber network through the development of semiconductor laser pumped optical amplifier.

2. Life Sciences

   Gero Miesenböck, Karl Deisseroth

   Biology

   for the development of methods that use genetically addressable light-sensitive membrane proteins to unravel neural circuit function.