Yoshihisa Okumura
Award Name : Charles Stark Draper Prize
Year of Award : 2013
Award for : Science and Engineering
Location : Kanazawa, Kanagawa, Japan
Dr. Yoshihisa Okumura (born 1926 in Isikawa Prefecture) is a Japanese engineer, known for development of cellular telephone networks. His radio survey of signal strength as a function of distance as measured in drive tests in automobiles was critical to the system planning of mobile radio telephone systems.He won Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2013 for mobile phone pioneers who laid the groundwork for today’s smartphone.