Japanese physician. In 2012 he along with John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells
Japanese-born American scientist, who was a pioneer in the cloning and fertilization. Led the team that cloned the first animal cloned from adult cells that survived adulthood. Also pioneered in vitro fertilization
2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash 'for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
Co-winner 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize/cited for discovering avermectin, derivatives of which helped lower incidence of river blindness & lymphatic filariasis 2 diseases caused by parasitic worms that affect millions of African & Asian people