This is a list of Kyoto Prize winners, awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation. [1] [2]
Source: Kyoto Prize
Year | Laureate | Country | |||
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1985 | Claude Elwood Shannon | United States | 1916–2001 | Mathematical sciences | |
1986 | George Evelyn Hutchinson | United States | 1903–1991 | Biological sciences | |
1987 | Jan Hendrik Oort | Netherlands | 1900–1992 | Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics | |
1988 | Avram Noam Chomsky | United States | born 1928 | Cognitive science | |
1989 | Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand | Soviet Union | 1913–2009 | Mathematical sciences | |
1990 | Jane Goodall | United Kingdom | born 1934 | Biological sciences | |
1991 | Edward Norton Lorenz | United States | 1917–2008 | Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics | |
1992 | Yasutomi Nishizuka | Japan | 1932–2004 | Life sciences | |
1993 | William Donald Hamilton | United Kingdom | 1936–2000 | Biological sciences | |
1994 | André Weil | France | 1906–1998 | Mathematical sciences | |
1995 | Chūshirō Hayashi | Japan | 1920–2010 | Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics | |
1996 | Mario Renato Capecchi | United States | born 1937 | Life sciences | |
1997 | Daniel Hunt Janzen | United States | born 1939 | Biological sciences | |
1998 | Kiyoshi Itô | Japan | 1915–2008 | Mathematical sciences | |
1999 | Walter Heinrich Munk | United States | 1917–2019 | Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics | |
2000 | Walter Jakob Gehring | Switzerland | 1939–2014 | Life sciences | |
2001 | John Maynard Smith | United Kingdom | 1920–2004 | Biological sciences | |
2002 | Mikhail Gromov | France | born 1943 | Mathematical sciences | |
2003 | Eugene Newman Parker | United States | 1927–2022 | Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics | |
2004 | Alfred G. Knudson | United States | 1922–2016 | Life sciences | |
2005 | Simon Asher Levin | United States | born 1941 | Biological sciences | |
2006 | Hirotsugu Akaike | Japan | 1927–2009 | Mathematical sciences | |
2007 | Hiroo Kanamori | Japan | born 1936 | Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics | |
2008 | Anthony James Pawson | Canada / United Kingdom | 1952–2013 | Life sciences | |
2009 | Barbara Rosemary Grant | United Kingdom | born 1936 | Biological sciences | |
Peter Raymond Grant | United Kingdom | born 1936 | |||
2010 | László Lovász | Hungary | born 1948 | Mathematical sciences | |
2011 | Rashid Alievich Sunyaev | Russia / Germany | born 1943 | Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics | |
2012 | Yoshinori Ohsumi | Japan | born 1945 | Life sciences | |
2013 | Masatoshi Nei | United States | 1931–2023 | Biological sciences | |
2014 | Edward Witten | United States | born 1951 | Mathematical sciences | |
2015 | Michel Mayor | Switzerland | born 1942 | Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics | |
2016 | Tasuku Honjo | Japan | born 1942 | Life sciences | |
2017 | Graham Farquhar | Australia | born 1947 | Biological sciences | |
2018 | Masaki Kashiwara | Japan | born 1947 | Mathematical sciences | |
2019 | James Gunn | United States | born 1938 | Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
2020 | No award because of COVID-19 pandemic | ||||
2021 | Robert G. Roeder | United States | born 1942 | Life sciences | |
2022 | Bryan Grenfell | United Kingdom | born 1954 | Biological sciences | |
2023 | Elliott H. Lieb | United States | born 1932 | Mathematical sciences | |
2024 | Paul F. Hoffman | Canada | born 1941 | Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Source: Kyoto Prize
Year | Laureate | Country | |||
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1985 | Rudolf Emil Kálmán | Hungary / United States | 1930–2016 | Electronics | |
1986 | Nicole Marthe Le Douarin | France | born 1930 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
1987 | Morris Cohen | United States | 1911–2005 | Materials science and engineering | |
1988 | John McCarthy | United States | 1927–2011 | Information science | |
1989 | Amos E. Joel, Jr. | United States | 1918–2008 | Electronics | |
1990 | Sydney Brenner | United Kingdom | 1927–2019 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
1991 | Michael Szwarc | United States | 1909–2000 | Materials science and engineering | |
1992 | Maurice Vincent Wilkes | United Kingdom | 1913–2010 | Information science | |
1993 | Jack St. Clair Kilby | United States | 1923–2005 | Electronics | |
1994 | Paul Christian Lauterbur | United States | 1929–2007 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
1995 | George William Gray | United Kingdom | 1926–2013 | Materials science and engineering | |
1996 | Donald Ervin Knuth | United States | born 1938 | Information science | |
1997 | Stanley Mazor | United States | born 1941 | Electronics | |
Marcian Edward Hoff Jr. | United States | born 1937 | |||
Federico Faggin | Italy | born 1941 | |||
Masatoshi Shima | Japan | born 1943 | |||
1998 | Kurt Wüthrich | Switzerland | born 1938 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
1999 | W. David Kingery | United States | 1926–2000 | Materials science and engineering | |
2000 | Sir Antony Hoare | United Kingdom | born 1934 | Information science | |
2001 | Morton B. Panish | United States | born 1929 | Electronics | |
Izuo Hayashi | Japan | 1922–2005 | |||
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov | Russia | 1930–2019 | |||
2002 | Leroy Edward Hood | United States | born 1938 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
2003 | George McClelland Whitesides | United States | born 1939 | Materials science and engineering | |
2004 | Alan Curtis Kay | United States | born 1940 | Information science | |
2005 | George H. Heilmeier | United States | 1936–2014 | Electronics | |
2006 | Leonard Herzenberg | United States | 1931–2013 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
2007 | Hiroo Inokuchi | Japan | 1927–2014 | Materials science and engineering | |
2008 | Richard M. Karp | United States | born 1935 | Information science | |
2009 | Isamu Akasaki | Japan | 1929–2021 | Electronics | |
2010 | Shinya Yamanaka | Japan | born 1962 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
2011 | John Werner Cahn | United States | 1928–2016 | Materials science and engineering | |
2012 | Ivan Edward Sutherland | United States | born 1938 | Information science | |
2013 | Robert H. Dennard | United States | born 1932 | Electronics | |
2014 | Robert S. Langer | United States | born 1948 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
2015 | Toyoki Kunitake | Japan | born 1936 | Materials science and engineering | |
2016 | Takeo Kanade | Japan | born 1945 | Information science | |
2017 | Takashi Mimura | Japan | born 1944 | Electronics | |
2018 | Karl Deisseroth | United States | born 1971 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
2019 | Ching Wan Tang | Hong Kong | born 1947 | Materials Science and Engineering | |
2020 | No award because of COVID-19 pandemic | ||||
2021 | Andrew Chi-Chih Yao | China / United States | born 1946 | Information science | |
2022 | Carver Mead | United States | born 1934 | Electronics | |
2023 | Ryuzo Yanagimachi | Japan | born 1928 | Biotechnology and medical technology | |
2024 | John Pendry | United Kingdom | born 1943 | Materials science and engineering |
Source: Kyoto Prize
Year | Laureate | Country | |||
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1985 | Olivier Messiaen | France | 1908–1992 | Music | |
1986 | Isamu Noguchi | United States | 1904–1988 | Arts | |
1987 | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | 1926–2016 | Theater, cinema | |
1988 | Paul Thieme | West Germany | 1905–2001 | Thought and Ethics | |
1989 | John Cage | United States | 1912–1992 | Music | |
1990 | Renzo Piano | Italy | born 1937 | Arts | |
1991 | Peter Stephen Paul Brook | United Kingdom | 1925–2022 | Theater, cinema | |
1992 | Karl Raimund Popper | United Kingdom | 1902–1994 | Thought and Ethics | |
1993 | Witold Lutosławski | Poland | 1913–1994 | Music | |
1994 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1910–1998 | Theater, cinema | |
1995 | Roy Lichtenstein | United States | 1923–1997 | Arts | |
1996 | Willard Van Orman Quine | United States | 1908–2000 | Thought and ethics | |
1997 | Iannis Xenakis | France | 1922–2001 | Music | |
1998 | Nam June Paik | United States | 1932–2006 | Arts | |
1999 | Maurice Béjart | France | 1927–2007 | Theater, cinema | |
2000 | Paul Ricœur | France | 1913–2005 | Thought and Ethics | |
2001 | György Ligeti | Austria / Hungary | 1923–2006 | Music | |
2002 | Tadao Ando | Japan | born 1941 | Arts | |
2003 | Tamao Yoshida | Japan | 1919–2006 | Theater, cinema | |
2004 | Jürgen Habermas | Germany | born 1929 | Thought and Ethics | |
2005 | Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Austria | 1929–2016 | Music | |
2006 | Issey Miyake | Japan | born 1938 | Arts | |
2007 | Pina Bausch | Germany | 1940–2009 | Theater, cinema | |
2008 | Charles Margrave Taylor | Canada | born 1931 | Thought and Ethics | |
2009 | Pierre Boulez | France | 1925–2016 | Music | |
2010 | William Kentridge | South Africa | born 1955 | Arts | |
2011 | Tamasaburo Bando V | Japan | born 1950 | Theater, cinema | |
2012 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | India | born 1942 | Thought and Ethics | |
2013 | Cecil Taylor | United States | 1929–2018 | Music | |
2014 | Fukumi Shimura | Japan | born 1924 | Arts | |
2015 | John Neumeier | United States | born 1942 | Theater, Cinema | |
2016 | Martha Craven Nussbaum | United States | born 1947 | Thought and Ethics | |
2017 | Richard Taruskin | United States | 1945–2022 | Music history | |
2018 | Joan Jonas | United States | born 1936 | Arts | |
2019 | Ariane Mnouchkine | France | born 1939 | Arts and Philosophy | |
2020 | No award because of COVID-19 pandemic | ||||
2021 | Bruno Latour | France | 1947–2022 | Thought and Ethics | |
2022 | Zakir Hussain | India | born 1951 | Music | |
2023 | Nalini Malani | India | born 1946 | Arts | |
2024 | William Forsythe | United States | born 1949 | Theater, Cinema |
The Kyoto Prize is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind". The Kyoto Prize was created in collaboration with the Nobel Foundation and is regarded by many as Japan's version of the Nobel Prize, representing one of the most prestigious awards available in fields that are not traditionally honored with a Nobel.
The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequest of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933–1986). The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993 and, since 2005, are awarded every three years. Each recipient currently receives SEK 400,000. A similar prize is the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, established by the Inamori Foundation. It is considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Philosophy.
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Simon Asher Levin is an American ecologist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University. He specializes in using mathematical modeling and empirical studies in the understanding of macroscopic patterns of ecosystems and biological diversities.
Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well.
Takeo Kanade is a Japanese computer scientist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision. He is U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. He has approximately 300 peer-reviewed academic publications and holds around 20 patents.
Graham Douglas Farquhar, is an Australian biophysicist, Distinguished Professor at Australian National University, and leader of the Farquhar Lab. In 2018 Farquhar was named Senior Australian of the Year.
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Karl Alexander Deisseroth is an American scientist. He is the D.H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.
The Inamori Foundation is a private foundation known for its annual announcement of the Kyoto Prize, founded by Kazuo Inamori in 1984. It reflects "the lifelong beliefs of its founder that people have no higher calling than to strive for the greater good of humankind and society and that the future of humanity can be assured only when there is a balance between scientific development and the enrichment of the human spirit." It has an endowment of 114.5 billion yen as of March 31, 2019. The honorary president of the foundation is Princess Takamado.
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1992 in philosophy
2008 in philosophy
2004 in philosophy
2000 in philosophy
1988 in philosophy
William David Kingery was an American material scientist who developed systematic methods for the study of ceramics. For his work, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in 1999.
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