Social/Economic Well-Being Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano Shuji Nakamura Individual/Humanity Well-Being Patrick O. Brown Stephen P. A. Fodor World Environmental Well-Being Charles Elachi Nobuyoshi Fugono Ken'ichi Okamoto

The Development and Promotion of DNA Microarrays Technical Achievement: The development of high-density DNA microarrays using photolithographic fabrication, and the promotion of the technology by commercialization of the GeneChip® array. Stephen P. A. Fodor 1978 B.S. in Biology from Washington State University 1982 M.S. in Biochemistry from Washington State University 1985 Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University 1989 Joined Affymax Research Institute 1993 Distinguished Inventor's Award by the Intellectual Property Owner's Association 1993 Founded Affymetrix Inc. 1995-1999 President and CEO of Affymetrix Inc. 1999-present Chairman and CEO of Affymetrix Inc. 2000 Founded Perlegen Sciences, Inc. Honors: 1983 Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Honor 1992 AAAS Newcomb-Cleveland Award for Outstanding Publication in Science 1993 Distinguished Inventor's Award by the Intellectual Property Owner's Association 1998 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine for the development of microarray methods for the analysis of gene expression on a genome-wide scale (with Patrick O. Brown) 2000 Rising Star Award for Silicon Valley 2000 Foundation Fighting Blindness Visionary Award He is honored with many other awards. > Awardees

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