Kyoto Prize awarded to Penn State's Masatoshi Nei (Penn State - The Pennsylvania State University)

(Source: Penn State - The Pennsylvania State University) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Masatoshi Nei, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and director of the Institute for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics at Penn State, has been honored as the recipient of the 2013 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences. The international award is presented by the Inamori Foundation to individuals who have contributed significantly to the progress of science, the advancement of civilization, and the enrichment and elevation of the human spirit. The foundation honored Nei in recognition of his "research on the evolution of biological populations using quantitative analyses of genetic variation and evolutionary time." In...