The Rank Prizes comprise the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics and the Rank Prize for Nutrition. The prizes recognise, reward and encourage researchers working in the respective fields of optoelectronics and nutrition. The prizes are funded by the charity The Rank Prize Funds, which were endowed by the industrialist, philanthropist and founder of the Rank Organisation, J. Arthur Rank and his wife Nell, via the Rank Foundation on 16 February 1972, not long before Arthur's death. The two Funds, the Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry Fund and the Optoelectronics Fund, support sciences which reflect Rank's business interests through his "connection with the flour-milling and cinema and electronics industries", and which Rank believed would be of great benefit to humanity. The Rank Prize Funds also recognise, support and foster excellence among young and emerging researchers in the two fields of nutrition and optoelectronics. The Funds aim to advance and promote education and learning for public benefit. Rank Prize for Optoelectronics The Rank Prize for Optoelectronics supports, encourages, and rewards researchers working at the cutting edge of optoelectronics research, initially (from 1976) awarded annually, now a biennial prize worth £100,000. Optoelectronics relates to the interface between optics and electronics, and related phenomena. The Committee on Optoelectronics consists of the following people: Donal Bradley CBE FRS (Chairman) Roberto Cipolla FREng Martin D. Dawson FRSE Helen Gleeson OBE Anya Hurlbert Simon Laughlin FRS, neurobiologist John Mollon DSc FRS Miles Padgett FRSE FRS Wilson Sibbett CBE FRS FRSE Maurice Skolnick FRS Past winners include: 1978 – Charles K. Kao 1988 – T. Peter Brody 1995 – William Bradshaw Amos 1998 – Federico Capasso 2006 - Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard and Stephen Wiesner 2008 – Mandyam Srinivasan 2008 – Peter B. Denyer 2014 – Alf Adams 2018 – Jonathan C. Knight 2018 – Philip Russell 2018 – Tim Birks Rank Prize for Nutrition The Rank Prize for Nutrition is for research in human and animal nutrition (distinct from animal husbandry), and crop husbandry. The Committee on Nutrition consists of the following people: John Mathers PhD Hon FAfN (Chairman) Malcolm Bennett Michael Gooding Peter Gregory FRASE Sarah Gurr Anne-Marie Minihane Susan Ozanne Ann Prentice OBE PHD John Wilding The Rank Prize for Nutrition was awarded at various intervals since 1976, but is now also awarded biennially, worth £100,000. In 2014 Australian biophysicist Graham Farquhar and the CSIRO agronomist Richard Richards were awarded the Rank Prize