Saturday 18th September 2004

The Economist announced its annual prizes for technology innovators. Winners in 6 categories included: David Goeddel for gene cloning; Vic Hayes for standardizing Wi-Fi networks; Linus Torvalds for the development of Linux; Takeshi Uchiyamada for developing the Prius hybrid car; Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer and Christoph Gerber for developing the scanning-tunneling microscope (1981); and Muhammad Yunus for the development of micro-credit.