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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
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were awarded the Rank Prize in Nutrition, for "pioneering the understanding of isotope discrimination in plants and its application to breed wheat varieties that use water more efficiently", which related to a discovery the pair made in the 1980s.
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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
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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
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The Rank Prize for Nutrition was awarded at various intervals since 1976, but is now also awarded biennially, worth £100,000.
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for "fundamental studies of plant-pest-natural enemy interactions and the development of practical methods of pest control".
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prize worth £100,000. Optoelectronics relates to the interface between optics and electronics, and related phenomena.
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The prizes recognise, reward and encourage researchers working in the respective fields of
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which established the existence of an alternative pathway for the initial fixation of
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The Committee on Optoelectronics consists of the following people:
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The Committee on Nutrition consists of the following people:
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for research on the original concept of quantum cryptography.
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Index

Rank Prize in Nutrition
optoelectronics
nutrition
Rank Organisation
J. Arthur Rank
Rank Foundation
nutrition
optoelectronics
biennial
Donal Bradley
Roberto Cipolla
Helen Gleeson
Simon Laughlin
neurobiologist
John Mollon
Miles Padgett
Wilson Sibbett
Maurice Skolnick
Charles K. Kao
George Gray
C. Thomas Elliott
Calvin Quate
T. Peter Brody
David N. Payne
William Alexander Gambling
William Newsome
Semir Zeki
Horace W. Babcock
Arthur Ashkin
William Bradshaw Amos

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