Three scientists receive Japan's highest award

Three scientists from the US, India and Japan have become the owners of the 2012 Kyoto Prize, the highest award of Japan awarded to outstanding scientists worldwide.

Scientist Ivan Sutherland (USA), 74, one of three scientists won the 2012 Kyoto Prize.

The three scientists are: Ivan Sutherland (USA) - the father of computer graphics with the achievement of the Sketchpad graphical interface program in 1963 won the technology award, Indian literary critic, grandma Gayatri Chakrovoty Spivak is also a professor at Columbia University winning the award for arts and philosophy.

The third is molecular biologist Yoshinori Obsumi at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, who won the basic science award with a cell reprocessing project to treat neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's and cancer.

All three scientists were awarded on November 10 in Tokyo, Japan. It is known that the Kyoto science award was founded by Kyocera Corp, Kazuo Inamori in 1984 to honor outstanding scientific achievements worldwide, in a Japanese way.