Shinya Inoué, a distinguished scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Mass., has been awarded the 2003 International Prize for Biology from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for his work in cell biology and video microscopy.
Inoué quelled a half century of debate when he proved the existence of spindle fibers while studying at Princeton in 1951 (S. Inoué, "Regulation of the submicroscopic organization of the mitotic spindle,"
Inoué began his career studying cell structure and organization with Katsuma Dan at the University of Tokyo, where he used a microscope made from a machine gun barrel to show Emperor Showa, who reigned from 1926 to ...