Shinya Yamanaka, Medicine Nobel laureate Getting Gifts Washing Machines

Shinya Yamanaka, Medicine Nobel laureate Getting Gifts Washing Machines. Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine with British researcher John Gurdon. Both will share the prize money worth 1.2 million U.S. dollars, or approximately USD 11.4 billion, while receiving prestigious awards earlier in Oslo, Norway in early December 2012.

But for Yamanaka, there are other gifts he received on Friday (10/19/2012), namely a washing machine. As he joked, Yamanaka said should immediately fix a broken washing machine when he heard the Nobel Medicine prize 2012.

Yamanaka and Gurdon get a Nobel prize in Medicine 2012 due to successful A peak cell research. At that time, Yamanaka said, have not had time to fix the washing machine because it consumed a lot of time to pekerjannya as a researcher.

On Friday, Japan's Minister of Science Makiko Tanaka insisted they submit to Yamanaka a certificate containing the signatures of 16 colleagues. This is mentioned in the certificate, 16 colleagues is to give each 10,000 yen, or about USD 1.2 million for Yamanaka and his family.

Now it's up to Yamanaka and families to choose their own new washer. No need to fix a broken washing machine.