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CREDIT: GRACE GREGORIO CREDIT: JSTF Japan Prizes. Weather and cholesterol were on the minds of the Japan Prize judges this year. John Houghton (top), an atmospheric physicist at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Exeter, U.K., was honored in the "Global Change" category for developing satellite-based remote-sensing techniques for mapping atmospheric temperatures in three dimensions and tracking the distribution and circulation of ozone, methane, and water vapor. For his role in discovering and developing statins, a key component of cholesterol-lowering drugs, Akira Endo (bottom) of Biopharm Research Laboratories in Tokyo won for "Development of Novel Therapeutic Concepts and Technologies." The judges said Endo's work has helped those with atherosclerotic vascular diseases, a leading cause of death in developed countries. Each winner receives $450,000. European Honor. A Finnish cancer biologist and a French geneticist have been named winners of the 2006 medicine prize awarded by the Louis-Jeantet Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. Kari Alitalo, a professor at the Finnish Academy of Sciences in Helsinki, receives the prize for his discovery of a growth factor involved in the formation of lymphatic vessels, and Christine Petit, a professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, wins the award for identifying the genes responsible for hereditary deafness. The two will share a research award of $1 million and take home an individual prize of $90,000 each. Public Service. Norman Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp., has been awarded the Public Welfare Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. The 70-year-old aeronautical engineer receives the honor for helping the U.S. government and industry understand the role of fundamental research in the country's "long-term security and economic prosperity."

Published 27 January 2006 in Science, 311(5760): 467b.
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