Kyoto Prize 2009: Winners

Recipients

1. Advanced Technology

   Isamu Akasaki

   CS

   Pioneering Work on Gallium Nitride p-n Junctions and Related Contributions to the Development of Blue Light Emitting Devices.

2. Basic Sciences

   Barbara Rosemary Grant, Peter Raymond Grant

   Biology

   Demonstrating Rapid Evolution Caused by Natural Selection in Response to Environmental Changes