Kyoto Prize 1998: Winners

Recipients

1. Advanced Technology

   Kurt Wüthrich

   CS

   Outstanding Contribution to Biology through the Expansion of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy to the Structure Analyses of Biological Macromolecules in Water Solution, an Environment Similar to That in the Living Cell.

2. Basic Sciences

   Kiyoshi Itō

   Math

   Fundamental Contribution to the Stochastic Analysis, through His Invention of Stochastic Differential Equations, Which Have Been Applied in Various Sciences