HONOR

Awarded by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tim Berners-Lee	Computer Programmer	8-Jun-1955		Inventor of the World Wide Web
Arvid Carlsson	Scientist	25-Jan-1923		Signal transduction in the nervous system
Vint Cerf	Scientist	23-Jun-1943		Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Elias James Corey	Chemist	12-Jul-1928		Retrosynthetic analysis
Gerhard Ertl	Chemist	10-Oct-1936		Auto emissions and the ozone layer
Leo Esaki	Physicist	12-Mar-1925		Electron tunneling
Albert Fert	Physicist	7-Mar-1938		Giant magnetoresistance
Robert C. Gallo	Doctor	23-Mar-1937		Identified first retroviruses in humans
Peter Grünberg	Physicist	18-May-1939		Giant magnetoresistance
Nick Holonyak	Physicist	3-Nov-1928		Light-emitting diodes
Robert E. Kahn	Scientist	23-Dec-1938		Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Charles K. Kao	Scientist	4-Nov-1933		Fiber optics
Ephraim Katzir	Head of State	16-May-1916	30-May-2009	President of Israel, 1973-78
Willem Johan Kolff	Scientist	14-Feb-1911	11-Feb-2009	Artificial kidney, artificial heart
Theodore Maiman	Physicist	11-Jul-1927	5-May-2007	Built the first working laser
Benoit Mandelbrot	Mathematician	20-Nov-1924	14-Oct-2010	Fractal mathematician
Ernst Mayr	Biologist	5-Jul-1904	3-Feb-2005	Evolutionary biologist
Victor A. McKusick	Scientist	21-Oct-1921	22-Jul-2008	Father of medical genetics
Marvin Minsky	Scientist	9-Aug-1927		Father of Artificial Intelligence
Luc Montagnier	Scientist	18-Aug-1932		Co-Discoverer of HIV
Kary Mullis	Chemist	28-Dec-1944		Nutball 1993 Nobel laureate
F. Sherwood Rowland	Chemist	28-Jun-1927	10-Mar-2012	Ozone depletion

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