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The Trustees have approved recommendations by
the Advisory Committees to award the following prizes. The award ceremony
was held in London on 9th February, 2004:
Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry
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Professor V Ganapathy |
£20,000 |
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of
Georgia, Augusta, USA |
| Dr M Hediger |
£20,000 |
Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston, USA |
| Dr F H Leibach |
£20,000 |
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of
Georgia, Augusta, USA |
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TOTAL |
£60,000
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In
recognition of their work on the identification, molecular characterisation and
control of cellular nutrient transporters.
Opto-electronics
| Dr A Giesen |
£30,000
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Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge, Universität Stuttgart, Germany |
For
the invention of, and contributions to research and development on thin disc lasers
| Dr R H H Kröger |
£20,000 |
Department of Cell
& Organism Biology, Lund University, Sweden |
| Professor M C W
Campbell |
£10,000 |
Department of
Physics and
Optometry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| Professor R D
Fernald |
£10,000 |
Department of
Psychology, Stanford University, California, USA |
| Professor H-J
Wagner |
£10,000 |
Anatomisches
Institut der Universität Tübingen, Germany |
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TOTAL |
£50,000
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In
recognition of their work on compensation for chromatic defocus in lenses of
vertebrates.
| Professor D Dacey |
£20,000 |
Department of
Biological Structure, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle,
USA |
| Professor B B Lee |
£10,000 |
State College of
Optometry, State University of New York, USA |
| Professor J
Pokorny |
£10,000 |
Visual Science
Laboratories, University of Chicago, USA |
| Professor V C
Smith |
£10,000 |
Visual Science
Laboratories, University of Chicago, USA |
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TOTAL |
£50,000
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In recognition of their
work on new pathways in the visual system.
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