Among the recipients of this year’s 22nd annual Kyoto Prize are the developer of the Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) and the creator of a statistical-model selection criterion that is finding applications ranging from weather forecasting to image compression.
Leonard A. Herzenberg and Hirotugu Akaike will collect their awards during a November ceremony in Kyoto, Japan. They will also receive a diploma, a 20-karat Kyoto Prize medal, and a cash gift of ¥50 million (approximately $446 000), according to the Inamori Foundation of Japan, which sponsors the prize. The Kyoto Prize is Japan’s highest private award for lifetime achievement, presented to individuals and groups worldwide who have contributed significantly to humankind’s betterment.
Herzenberg, a professor emeritus of genetics at Stanford University, won in the advanced technology category “for his outstanding contributions to life sciences and clinical medicine through his work in developing the FACS, a flow cytometer that has had...
