President, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2001 Masatoshi Ōkōchi, physicist and the third Director of Riken Yoshiki Sasai, developmental biologist who grew an optic cup from stem cells. Umetaro Suzuki, discoverer of vitamin B1 Toshio Takamine, specialist in spectroscopy, author of The "Near Infra-Red Spectra of Helium and Mercury" and "Absorption of Ha Line" and "The structure of mercury lines examined by an echelon grating and a Lummer-Gehrcke plate" Masayo Takahashi, pioneer in the clinical application of iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) technology on macular degeneration Masatoshi Takeichi, discoverer of the cadherin family of cell-cell adhesion molecules and head of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology Ume Tange (jp), researcher on vitamins, and one of first three women to receive a bachelor's degree in Japan Torahiko Terada, physicist and essayist Yoshinori Tokura, pioneer of strongly-correlated electron systems in Japan. Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, winner of the 1965 Nobel physics prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics Susumu Tonegawa, head of the Brain Science Institute and winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the mechanism of antibody diversity. Michiyo Tsujimura, biochemist, known for isolating components of green tea Tadashi Watanabe, head of Riken's Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center Toshiko Yuasa, Japan's first female physicist, who specialized in nuclear physics Hideki Yukawa, physicist who won the 1949 Nobel prize for his prediction of the pion Hidetoshi Katori, physicist who invented the magic wavelength technique enabling the realization of ultra high precision optical lattice atomic clocks See also RIKEN integrated database of mammals References External links Riken Research – A resource for up-to-date information on key achievements of Riken researchers. 1917 establishments in Japan Biosafety level 4 laboratories Independent Administrative Institutions of Japan Multidisciplinary research institutes Nuclear research institutes Research institutes in Japan Science and technology in Japan Zaibatsu