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2005 Kyoto Prize Laureates



Advanced Technology Category
Prize Field: Electronics


Dr. George H. Heilmeier (U.S.A., b. 1936)
Electrical Engineer
Chairman Emeritus, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

"For pioneering contributions to the realization of flat-panel displays using liquid crystals."




Basic Sciences Category
Prize Field: Biological Sciences
(Evolution, Behavior, Ecology, Environment)


Professor Simon Asher Levin (U.S.A., b. 1941)
Ecologist
Professor, Princeton University

"For the establishment of the field of spatial ecology and the proposition of the biosphere as a 'complex adaptive system.'"




Arts and Philosophy Category
Prize Field: Music


Mr. Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, b. 1929)
Musician
Honorary member of the Vienna Concert House Society, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

"A musician of outstanding creativity who has contributed to the establishment of the historically informed performance of European early music, and who has extended his principles and interpretation to modern music as well."


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