Takeda Awards
The [[Takeda Foundation]], is an organisation based in [[Japan]]. In [[2001]] it launched an annual awards program, which presented awards accompanied by 100 million [[yen]] under the categories social/economic well-being, individual/humanity well-being, and world environmental well-being.
== Winners ==
Awardees within each category are listed in alphabetical order.
=== 2001 ===
==== Social/Economic Well-Being ====
The technical achievement honored by the Takeda Award 2001 Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievements for Social/Economic Well-Being was "the origination and the advancement of open development models for system software - open architecture, free software and open source software."
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|Ken Sakamura ([[University of Tokyo]])
|for developing and promoting the TRON open architecture, a real-time operating system specification for embedded systems
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|[[Richard Stallman]] ([[Free Software Foundation]])
|for starting the free software movement and leading the development of the GNU operating system
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|Linus Torvalds ([[Transmeta Corporation]])
|for developing the Linux operating system kernel by the open source process for software development
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==== Individual/Humanity Well-Being ====
The technical achievement honored by the Takeda Award 2001 Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievements for Individual/Humanity Well-Being was "development of a large-scale genome sequencing system by establishing 'the whole genome shotgun strategy' that utilizes modularized data acquisition system and high-throughput DNA sequencers."
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|Michael W. Hunkapiller (Applied Biosystems)
|for his contribution to the development of the automated high-throughput DNA sequencers and the promotion of the foundation of Celera Genomics
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|J. Craig Venter (Celera Genomics)
|for the foundation of Celera Genomics and the development of "the whole genome shotgun strategy".
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==== World/Environmental Well-Being ====
The technical achievement honored by the Takeda Award 2001 Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievements for World Environmental Well-Being is "the development and promotion of the Ecological Rucksacks and Material Input per Unit Service (MIPS) concepts, as measures of the ecological stress of products and services."
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|Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek (Factor 10 Institute)
|for developing and promoting the Ecological Rucksacks and [[Material input per unit of service|Material Input per Unit of Service]] (MIPS) concepts.
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|Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker (Founding President of Wuppertal Institute.)
|for his contribution in refining and promoting the Ecological Rucksacks and Material Input per Unit Service (MIPS) concepts.
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The awards were suspended in [[2003]] due to financial constraints, with the hope that they could be restarted if/when the Takeda Foundation's financial situation improves. [http://www.takeda-foundation.jp/en/topics/press/030707.html]
As well as the above awards, also in 2001 and [[2002]] they presented the Techno-Entrepreurship Award, and the Takeda Scholarship Award.
=== 2002 ===
==== Social/Economic Well-Being ====
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|[[Isamu Akasaki]] ([[Meijo University]]) (25%)
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|[[Hiroshi Amano]] ([[Meijo University]]) (25%)
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|[[Shuji Nakamura]] ([[University of California, Santa Barbara]]) (50%)
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| rowspan=3| For development of the blue [[light-emitting diode]] and blue [[laser diode]]
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==== Individual/Humanity Well-Being ====
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|[[Patrick O. Brown]] ([[Stanford University]], [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]])
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|[[Stephen P. A. Fodor]] ([[Affymetrix]])
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| rowspan=3| For development and promotion of [[DNA microarray]]s
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==== World/Environmental Well-Being ====
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|[[Charles Elachi]] ([[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]], [[California Institute of Technology]])
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|[[Nobuyoshi Fugono]] ([[Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International]])
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|[[Ken'ichi Okamoto]] ([[Osaka Prefecture University]])
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| rowspan=3| For development of Spaceborne Microwave Radar for Monitoring the Global Environment
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==Resources==
*[http://www.takeda-foundation.jp/en/index.html Takeda Foundation]
[[Category:Awards established in 2001]]
[[Category:Japanese awards]]
[[Category:Humanitarian and service awards]]
[[Category:Environmental awards]]
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