This award comes on the heels
of numerous other honors recognizing Dr. Yamanaka and the importance of his iPS discovery, including the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Millennium Technology Prize, the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Shaw Prize and the Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology.
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, was named a New York Times Notable Book and awarded the Guardian First Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction,
among numerous other honors.
Her first book, Tar Beach, was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration,
among numerous other honors.
Beloved children's and young adult author Katherine Paterson has won two Newbery Medals, two National Book Awards and
numerous other honors.