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Broadcast on NHK on September 5, 1987 Heisuke Hironaka Mathematician Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1931 After graduating from Kyoto University, completed graduate school at Harvard University Received the Academy Prize, Fields Medal, Order of Culture, and other awards Professors at Harvard University and Kyoto University (at the time of broadcast) Professor Emeritus at Harvard University Tokindo Okada Developmental biologist Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1927 Graduated from the Faculty of Science and Graduate School at Kyoto University Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science Professor at Kyoto University Received the Harrison Prize of the International Society for Developmental Biology and the Order of Culture, among others Director of the National Institute for Basic Biology (at the time of broadcast) Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University