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India
Amartya Sen (b.1933)
Economist
Sen has produced signiicantwork
on social choice theory and welfare
economics, which includes the
causes of famine. For his work,
which beneits society’s poorest
members, Sen was awarded the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic
Sciences in 1998.
India
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw(b.19 5 3)
Managing director, Biocon
he “technology pioneer” developed
cost-efective medical techniques and
lower-cost drugs, and also researches
into areas such as cancer, diabetes and
other autoimmune diseases. hrough
her company, she directs a high
proportion of its revenue – 10% –
into research and development.China
Yang Chen-Ning(b.1922)
Physicist
Yang, whose work focuses on
statistical mechanics and particle
physics, made his most important
contributions in the Yang-Mills
theory. He and fellow physicist
Tsung-dao Lee won the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1957 for their
investigation into parity violation.48 49 50
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Japan
Masayo Takahashi (b.1961)
Ophthalmologist & stem cell researcher
Also a medical physician, Professor
Takahashi is best noted for her
groundbreaking work in regenerative
medicine. Leading a team, she
completed the irst successful
transplant of a relatively new type
of stem cells – induced pluripotent
stem (iPS) cells – into the eye of a
patient with macular degeneration.
“As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears.”
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Completed
first successful
transplant of
iPS cells