Dr. Gordon Hisashi Sato

Gordon Hisashi Sato, United States, is an American cell biologist who attains a lot recognition for his innovative research. For this work he was elected in 1984 to the United States National Academy of Sciences. In the mid-1980s he established the Manzanar Project, aimed at attacking the planet's most critical problems as poverty, hunger, environmental pollution, and global warming through low tech biotechnological methods in salt water deserts that can be transferred to the indigenous inhabitants. Sato was awarded with the Blue Planet Prize in 2005 and the Rolex Awards in 2002.