The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering hopes our awareness and appreciation will be raised by making Masato Sagawa its 2022 laureate. He is a Japanese scientist who invented the neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnet. Nd-Fe-B is the strongest permanent magnet in wide-scale use today, found in everything from cars to computers. Which is one of those indispensable materials, and without this everyday life would be a lot less efficient. Dr. Sagawa is a colleague of Dr. Laura H. Lewis and collaborator Dr. George C. Hadjipanayis.
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