Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology

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The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
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Awarded forGlobal achievement in Advanced Technology
Location Kyoto, Japan
Presented by Inamori Foundation
First award1985
Website kyotoprize.org

The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology is awarded once a year by the Inamori Foundation. The Prize is one of three Kyoto Prize categories; the others are the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences and the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. The first Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology was awarded to Rudolf E. Kálmán, the "creator of modern control and system theory". [1] The Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in fields which are traditionally not honored with a Nobel Prize. [2] [3]

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Fields

The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology is awarded on a rotating basis to researchers in the following four fields:

Laureates

Source: Kyoto Prize

Electronics

YearLaureateCountry
1985 Rudolf Kalman.jpg Rudolf Emil Kálmán Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary / Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1930–2016Establishment of the Modern Control Theory Based on the State Space Approach [4]
1989 Amos E. Joel, Jr. Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1918–2008Pioneering Contribution to the Electronic Switching Technology for Telecommunications, Especially that Based on the Concept of "Stored Program Control" [5]
1993 Jack St. Clair Kilby Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1923–2005Creation of the Concept of the Monolithic Semiconductor Integrated Circuit and Its Demonstration [6]
1997 Stanley Mazor Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1941Development of the World’s First Microprocessor [7] [8] [9] [10]
Marcian Edward Hoff Jr. Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1937
Federico Faggin (cropped).jpg Federico Faggin Flag of Italy.svg  Italy born 1941
Masatoshi Shima Flag of Japan.svg  Japan born 1943
2001 Morton B. Panish Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1929A Pioneering Step in the Development of Optoelectronics through Success in Continuous Operation of Semiconductor Lasers at Room Temperature [11] [12] [13]
Izuo Hayashi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1922–2005
Zhores Alferov.jpg Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1930–2019
2005 George H. Heilmeier.jpg George H. Heilmeier Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1936–2014Pioneering contributions to the realization of flat-panel displays using liquid crystals [14]
2009 Isamu Akasaki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan born 1929Pioneering Work on Gallium Nitride p-n Junctions and Related Contributions to the Development of Blue Light Emitting Devices [15]
2013 Robert Dennard.jpg Robert H. Dennard Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1932Invention of Dynamic Random Access Memory and Proposal of Guidelines for FET Miniaturization [16]
2017 Takashi Mimura  [ de ]Flag of Japan.svg  Japan born 1944Invention of the High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) and Its Development for the Progress of Information and Communications Technology [17]
2022 Carver Mead Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1934Leading Contributions to the Establishment of the Guiding Principles for VLSI Systems Design. [18]

Biotechnology and medical technology

YearLaureateCountry
1986 Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, 2013 (cropped).jpg Nicole Marthe Le Douarin Flag of France.svg  France born 1930Outstanding Contribution to Embryology through the Development of the Technology for Making Chicken/Quail Chimeras [19]
1990 Sydney Brenner 1965 cropped.jpg Sydney Brenner Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 1927–2019Pioneering Contribution to Molecular Biology through Demonstration of Messenger RNA and Establishment of C. Elegans as an Experimental System for Developmental Biology [20]
1994 Paul Christian Lauterbur Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1929–2007Proposal of the Basic Principles and Outstanding Contribution to the Development of MRI that Confers a Great Benefit on Clinical Medicine [21]
1998 Kurt wuethrich.jpg Kurt Wüthrich Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland born 1938Outstanding Contribution to Biology through the Expansion of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy to the Structure Analyses of Biological Macromolecules in Water Solution, an Environment Similar to That in the Living Cell [22]
2002 Leroy Hood PITT2008.jpg Leroy Edward Hood Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1938Contributions to life sciences through the automation of protein and DNA sequencing and synthesis [23]
2006 LenHerzenberg.jpg Leonard Herzenberg Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1931–2013Outstanding contribution to life sciences with the development of a flow cytometer that uses fluorescent-labeled monoclonal antibodies [24]
2010 Shinya yamanaka10.jpg Shinya Yamanaka Flag of Japan.svg  Japan born 1962Development of Technology for Generating Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells [25]
2014 Robert Langer MTMLecture 2008 09 25 portrait.JPG Robert S. Langer Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1948Creation of Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery System Technologies [26]
2018 Karl Deisseroth by Christopher Michel 04.jpg Karl Deisseroth Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1971Discovery of Optogenetics and Development of Causal Systems Neuroscience [27]
2023 Yana IBR 2014 copy.jpg Ryuzo Yanagimachi Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1928Contributions to the Elucidation of Fertilization Mechanisms and the Establishment of Microinsemination Technology [28]

Materials science and engineering

YearLaureateCountry
1987 Morris Cohen Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1911–2005Fundamental Contribution to Development of New Materials Based on Creation of Broad and Basic Insights into the Metal Phase Transformation and Structure-Property Relationship [29]
1991 Michael Szwarc Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1909–2000Pioneering Contribution to Research and Development of Polymeric Materials by Discovering "Living Polymerization" [30]
1995 George William Gray Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 1926–2013Fundamental Contribution to Research and Development of Liquid Crystal Materials by Establishing the Practical Molecular Design Methods [31]
1999 W. David Kingery Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1926–2000Fundamental Contribution to Development of the Ceramics Science and Technology Based on the Physicochemical Theory [32]
2003 George M. Whitesides HD2007.jpg George McClelland Whitesides Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1939Contributions to Nanomaterials Science through the Development of Organic Molecular Self-Assembly Technique [33]
2007 Hiroo Inokuchi  [ de ]Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1927–2014Pioneering and Fundamental Contributions to Organic Molecular Electronics [34]
2011 John W. Cahn.jpg John Werner Cahn Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1928–2016Outstanding Contribution to Alloy Materials Engineering by the Establishment of Spinodal Decomposition Theory [35]
2015 Toyoki Kunitake  [ de ]Flag of Japan.svg  Japan born 1936Pioneering Contributions to the Materials Sciences by Discovering Synthetic Bilayer Membranes and Creating the Field of Chemistry Based on Molecular Self-Assembly [36]
2019 Ching W Tang.jpg Ching W. Tang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China

Flag of the United States.svg  United States

born 1947Pioneering Contributions to the Birth of High-Efficiency Organic Light-Emitting Diodes and Their Applications. [37]
2024 John Pendry Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom born 1943Contribution of the Theoretical Construction of Metamaterials to the Field of Material Science.

Information science

YearLaureateCountry
1988 John McCarthy Stanford.jpg John McCarthy Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1927–2011Fundamental Contribution to the Field of Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of LISP, a Programming Language [38]
1992 Maurice Vincent Wilkes 1980 (1).jpg Maurice Vincent Wilkes Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 1913–2010Building and Designing the First Practical Stored Program Computer and Pioneering Studies of Computer Architecture [39]
1996 KnuthAtOpenContentAlliance.jpg Donald Ervin Knuth Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1938Outstanding Contribution to Various Fields of the Computer Science Ranging from the Art of Computer Programming to the Development of Epoch-Making Electronic Publishing Tools [40]
2000 Sir Tony Hoare IMG 5123.jpg Antony Hoare Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom born 1934Pioneering and Fundamental Contributions to the Progress of Software Science [41]
2004 Alan Kay (3097597186) (cropped).jpg Alan Curtis Kay Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1940Creation of the concept of modern personal computing and contribution to its realization [42]
2008 Karp mg 7725-b.cr2.jpg Richard M. Karp Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1935Fundamental Contributions to the Development of the Theory of Computational Complexity [43]
2012 Ivan Sutherland at CHM.jpg Ivan Edward Sutherland Flag of the United States.svg  United States born 1938Pioneering Achievements in the Development of Computer Graphics and Interactive Interfaces [44]
2016 Takeo Kanade.jpg Takeo Kanade Flag of Japan.svg  Japan born 1945Pioneering Contributions, both Theoretical and Practical, to Computer Vision and Robotics [45]
2020No award because of COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Andrew Yao P1130016 (cropped).jpg Andrew Chi-Chih Yao Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China born 1946Pioneering Contributions to a New Theory of Computation and Communication and a Fundamental Theory for its Security. [46]
2025 Shunichi Amari cropped Shunichi Amari 201911.jpg Shun-ichi Amari Flag of Japan.svg  Japan born 1936Pioneering Contributions to Opening Up Theoretical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of Information Geometry. [47]


See also

References

  1. "Rudolf Emil Kalman". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  2. "Kyoto Prize honors achievement and character". USA Today. 11 November 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  3. "John Cahn to Receive 2011 Kyoto Prize For Fundamental Contributions to Materials Science". National Institute of Standards and Technology. 24 June 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  4. "Rudolf Emil Kalman". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  5. "Amos Edward Joel, Jr". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  6. "Jack St. Clair Kilby". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  7. "Stanley Mazor". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  8. "Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  9. "Federico Faggin". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  10. "Masatoshi Shima". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  11. "Morton B. Panish". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  12. "Izuo Hayashi". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  13. "Zhores Ivanovich Alferov". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  14. "George H. Heilmeier". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  15. "Isamu Akasaki". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  16. "Robert Heath Dennard". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  17. "Takashi Mimura". Archived from the original on 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  18. Carver Mead 2022
  19. "Nicole Marthe Le Douarin". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  20. "Sydney Brenner". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  21. "Paul Christian Lauterbur". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  22. "Kurt Wüthrich". Inamori Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  23. "Leroy Edward Hood". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  24. "Leonard Arthur Herzenberg". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  25. "Shinya Yamanaka". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  26. "Robert Samuel Langer". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  27. "Karl Deisseroth". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  28. "Ryuzo Yanagimachi". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  29. "Morris Cohen". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  30. "Michael Szwarc". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  31. "George William Gray". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  32. "W. David Kingery". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  33. "George McClelland Whitesides". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  34. "Hiroo Inokuchi". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  35. "John Werner Cahn". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  36. "Toyoki Kunitake". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  37. Ching W. Tang
  38. "John McCarthy". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  39. "Maurice Vincent Wilkes". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  40. "Donald Ervin Knuth". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  41. "Antony Hoare". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  42. "Alan Curtis Kay". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  43. "Richard Manning Karp". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  44. "Ivan Edward Sutherland". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  45. "Takeo Kanade". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  46. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
  47. Kyoto Prize 2025