The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan has announced that Japanese and US scientists have been named as laureates of the 2010 (26th) Japan Prize. Dr. Shun-ichi Iwasaki, 83, Director of Tohoku Institute of Technology in Japan, and also Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University, has received the prize in this year's category of "Industrial production and production technology" for his contributions to high-density magnetic recording technology by developing a perpendicular magnetic recording method. Dr. Peter Vitousek, Professor of Biology, Stanford University in the United States, 60, was selected in the other prize category of "Biological production and environment" for his contributions to solving global environmental issues based on the analysis of nitrogen and other substances' cycles. They will receive certificates of merit, and commemorative medals. There is also a cash award of fifty million Japanese yen for each prize category. The presentation ceremony is scheduled to be held in Tokyo on Wednesday 21st April, 2010. The prize categories for the 2011 (27th) Japan Prize will be "Information and communications" and "Bioscience and medical science". For further information, visit the Web page, http://www.japanprize.jp/en/index.html
