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For elevating the creativity of researchers in science and
technology, it is most important to increase mobility for researchers and enable
young researchers of multiple backgrounds to exercise their ability.
The increase in research expense funds, and the improvement
in the treatment of young researchers are likely to promote the vitalization
of Japanese researchers as a whole. Many of great research achievement tend to
come from young to middle-aged researchers below age 40s. Therefore, it is a
most important step to create environment in which researchers of this age bracket
can devote themselves to research.
Table
14 lists Japanese winners of the Nobel Prize. The age when Dr. Hideki Yukawa
produced his research achievement was 28 at the youngest, with Dr. Hideki Shirakawa
41 at the oldest. All achievements were made before the age of early half of
40s of the winners. This trend holds true with the winners of nationals other
than the Japanese.
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