Nakai Jun’nosuke
Nakai Jun’nosuke (1918–2004) was a pioneering researcher who helped lay the foundations of modern neuroscience. He was the first in the world to successfully co-culture nerve and muscle cells, revealing how life connects and communicates within itself. Yet his true legacy lay not in discovery alone, but in the way he revered every cell as a small world—an existence with its own quiet will. He asked his students to value sincerity above results, and every one of them later became a teacher in turn.