Kyoto Prize

The Kyoto Prize "is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind. The Prize is presented annually in each of the following three categories: Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, and Arts and Philosophy." Distributed by the Inamori Foundation.

Executive Committee

Accessed December 2008:

• Shun-ichi Amari, (Senior Advisor, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN)
• Toshitaka Hidaka, (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
• Heisuke Hironaka, (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
• Tasuku Honjo, (Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office)
• Yasuyoshi Inagaki, (Executive Trustee, Vice President, Toyohashi University of Technology)
• Tisato Kajiyama, (President, Kyushu University)
• Heita Kawakatsu, (President, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture)
• Shigetada Nakanishi, (Director, Osaka Bioscience Institute)
• Ryoji Noyori, (President, RIKEN)
• Hiroyuki Sakaki, (Vice President, Toyota Technological Institute)
• Humitaka Sato, (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
• Ryuichiro Sengen, (President, Institute of Industrial Property Law)
• Yasuharu Suematsu, (Adviser, National Institute of Informatics, Research Organization of Information and Systems)
• Shuji Takashina, (Director, Ohara Museum of Art)

Winners

Accessed December 2008:

THE 2008 KYOTO PRIZE

• Richard Manning Karp (U.S.A., 1935-)
• Anthony James Pawson (Canada, U.K., 1952-)
• Charles Margrave Taylor (Canada, 1931-)

THE 2007 KYOTO PRIZE

• Hiroo Inokuchi (Japan, 1927-)
• Hiroo Kanamori (Japan, 1936-)
• Pina Bausch (Germany, 1940-)

THE 2006 KYOTO PRIZE

• Leonard Arthur Herzenberg (U.S.A., 1931-)
• Hirotugu Akaike (Japan, 1927-)
• Issey Miyake (Japan, 1938-)

THE 2005 KYOTO PRIZE

• George H. Heilmeier (U.S.A., 1936-)
• Simon Asher Levin (U.S.A., 1941-)
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, 1929-)

THE 2004 KYOTO PRIZE

• Alan Curtis Kay (U.S.A., 1940-)
• Alfred George Knudson, Jr. (U.S.A., 1922-)
• Jurgen Habermas (Germany, 1929-)

THE 2003 KYOTO PRIZE

• George McClelland Whitesides (U.S.A., 1939-)
• Eugene Newman Parker (U.S.A., 1927-)
• Tamao Yoshida (Japan, 1919-2006)

THE 2002 KYOTO PRIZE

• Leroy Edward Hood (U.S.A.,1938-)
• Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (France, 1943-)
• Tadao Ando (Japan, 1941-)

THE 2001 KYOTO PRIZE

• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia, 1930-)
• Izuo Hayashi (Japan, 1922-2005)
• Morton B. Panish (U.S.A., 1929-)
• John Maynard Smith (U.K., 1920-2004)
• György Ligeti (Austria, 1923-2006)

THE 2000 KYOTO PRIZE

• Antony Hoare (U.K., 1934-)
• Walter Jakob Gehring (Switzerland, 1939-)
• Paul Ricœur (France, 1913-2005)

THE 1999 KYOTO PRIZE

• W. David Kingery (U.S.A., 1926-2000)
• Walter H. Munk (U.S.A., 1917-)
• Maurice Béjart (France, 1927-2007)

THE 1998 KYOTO PRIZE

• Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland, 1938-)
• Kiyosi Itô (Japan, 1915-2008)
• Nam June Paik (U.S.A., 1932-2006)

THE 1997 KYOTO PRIZE

• Federico Faggin (Italy, 1941-)
• Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr. (U.S.A., 1937-)
• Stanley Mazor (U.S.A., 1941-)
• Masatoshi Shima (Japan, 1943-)
• Daniel Hunt Janzen (U.S.A., 1939-)
• Iannis Xenakis (France, 1922-2001)

THE 1996 KYOTO PRIZE

• Donald Ervin Knuth (U.S.A., 1938-)
• Mario Renato Capecchi (U.S.A., 1937-)
• Willard Van Orman Quine (U.S.A., 1908-2000)

THE 1995 KYOTO PRIZE

• George William Gray (U.K., 1926-)
• Chushiro Hayashi (Japan, 1920-)
• Roy Lichtenstein (U.S.A. 1923-1997)

THE 1994 KYOTO PRIZE

• Paul Christian Lauterbur (U.S.A., 1929-2007)
• André Weil (France, 1906-1998)
• Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1910-1998)
• Jack St. Clair Kilby (U.S.A., 1923-2005)
• William Donald Hamilton (U.K., 1936-2000)
• Witold Lutoslawski (Poland, 1913-1994)

THE 1992 KYOTO PRIZE

• Maurice Vincent Wilkes (U.K., 1913-)
• Yasutomi Nishizuka (Japan, 1932-2004)
• Karl Raimund Popper (U.K., 1902-1994)
• Michael Szwarc (U.S.A., 1909-2000)
• Edward Norton Lorenz (U.S.A., 1917-2008)
• Peter Stephen Paul Brook (U.K., 1925-)

THE 1990 KYOTO PRIZE

• Sydney Brenner (U.K., 1927-)
• Jane Goodall (U.K., 1934-)
• Renzo Piano (Italy, 1937-)

THE 1989 KYOTO PRIZE

• Amos Edward Joel, Jr. (U.S.A., 1918-2008)
• Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand (Russia, 1913-)
• John Cage (U.S.A., 1912-1992)

THE 1988 KYOTO PRIZE

• John McCarthy (U.S.A., 1927-)
• Avram Noam Chomsky (U.S.A., 1928-)
• Paul Thieme (Germany, 1905-2001)

THE 1987 KYOTO PRIZE

• Morris Cohen (U.S.A., 1991-2005)
• Jan Hendrik Oort (The Netherlands, 1900-1992)
• Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1926-)
• Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France, 1930-)
• George Evelyn Hutchinson (U.S.A., 1903-1991)
• Isamu Noguchi (U.S.A., 1904-1988)

THE 1985 KYOTO PRIZE

• Rudolf Emil Kalman (U.S.A., 1930-)
• Claude Elwood Shannon (U.S.A., 1916-2001)
• Olivier Messiaen (France, 1908-1992)
• Nobel Foundation (Sweden)