pioneering work on cancer-causing chemicals and new manufacturing paradigms won four US and Japanese researchers on Japan 1997 Price, a lucrative price that sometimes foreshadows a Nobel prize.
Prices, announced in Tokyo on 10 January, is 50 million yen ($ 452,000) each and are awarded in two fields of research. This year, in the category of "biotechnology in medicine," cancer researcher Takashi Sugimura, president of Toho University in Tokyo, and Bruce Ames biologist from the University of California, Berkeley, were honored for their work in independently on how certain environmental chemicals damage DNA and cause cancer. the two scientists "demonstrated the close relationship between mutagenicity and carcinogenicity ... and developed a method to identify environmental carcinogens by their mutagenic "said the science and technology Foundation of Japan, which administers the awards.
In the second category, "systems engineering for an artifactual environment," the winners were Joseph Engelberger, founder of Helpmate Robotics Inc. (formerly CRT) in Danbury, Connecticut, and the University Tokyo Hiroyuki Yoshikawa President. Engelberger is a pioneer in the development of industrial robots, having started Unimation, one of the first companies to produce in 1961. Yoshikawa is quoted to help create a "techno-global paradigm" which includes the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems program, an international research project on the next generation of manufacturing technologies started in 1994.
scientists will be honored at a ceremony in Tokyo on 25 April.
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