Two Americans and an Austrian conductor and musician will be introduced as the 2005 Kyoto Prize Laureates at a black-tie fund-raising gala April 18 at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. Events related to the fifth annual Kyoto Laureate Symposium and Gala will extend through April 20 at SDSU, UCSD and USD.

Simon A. Levin	George H. Heilmeier	Nikolaus Harnoncourt

The Kyoto Prize Laureates are Simon A. Levin, an ecologist and head of Princeton University’s Center for Biocomplexity; George H. Heilmeier, an electronics engineer, researcher and corporate CEO who made pioneering contributions to the field of liquid crystals and who invented the world’s first flat-panel LCD; and Grammy Award winner Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Besides introducing the laureates to the community, the gala will benefit the Kyoto scholarships, which will be given to six outstanding San Diego and Tijuana high school seniors in their pursuit of college educations in the broad fields of the Kyoto Prize — advanced technology, basic sciences and arts and philosophy. The gala is co-chaired by Malin Burnham of the Burnham Cos. and Tom Fat of Fat City Inc. Honorary chair is Irwin Jacobs, chair of Qualcomm. Gala tickets are $200, but lectures April 19 and 20 are free and open to the public. Guests must register online at kyotoprize.org.