Kyoto/Neuss – The Kyoto Prize, alongside the Nobel Prize one of the world’s highest honours for the lifetime work of outstanding personalities in culture and science, is being awarded this year to the composer Pierre Boulez, the evolutionary biologists Dr Peter Raymond Grant und Dr Barbara Rosemary Grant as well as to Dr Isamu Akasaki, a scientist researching in the field of electronics. Each worth 50 million yen (some €370,000/ £320,000), the honours are awarded every year by the Inamori Foundation, which was initiated in 1984 by Dr Kazuo Inamori, founder of the Japanese technology corporation Kyocera.
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