In Brief

At a ceremony next month in Tokyo, the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan will award the 2003 Japan Prize to three individuals. In the science and technology complexity category, the prize will go jointly to Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University, and James A. Yorke, Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, for their “creation of universal concepts in complex systems—fractals and chaos.” The prize in the category of visualizing techniques in medicine will go to Seiji Ogawa for his “discovery of the principle for functional magnetic resonance imaging.” Ogawa retired in 2001 as a distinguished member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, but currently is director of Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research at the Hamano Life Science Research Foundation in Tokyo. A cash prize of...