List of Kyoto Prize winners
This is a list of Kyoto Prize winners.
Basic sciences
Biological sciences
- 1986: George Evelyn Hutchinson (U.S., 1903–1987)
- 1990: Jane Goodall (U.K., born 1934)
- 1993: William Donald Hamilton (U.K., 1936–2000)
- 1997: Daniel Hunt Janzen (U.S., born 1939)
- 2001: John Maynard Smith (U.K., 1920–2004)
- 2005: Simon Asher Levin (U.S., born 1941)
- 2009: Peter Grant (U.K., born 1936) and Rosemary Grant (U.K., born 1936) [1]
- 2013: Masatoshi Nei (U.S., born 1931)
Mathematical sciences
- 1985: Claude Elwood Shannon (U.S.A., 1916–2001)
- 1989: Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand (Russia, 1913–2009)
- 1994: André Weil (France, 1906–1998)
- 1998: Kiyoshi Itō (Japan, 1915–2008)
- 2002: Mikhail Gromov (France, born 1943)
- 2006: Hirotsugu Akaike (Japan, 1927–2009)
- 2010: László Lovász (Hungary, born 1948)
- 2014: Edward Witten (U.S.A., born 1951)
Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
- 1987: Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands, 1900–1992)
- 1991: Edward Norton Lorenz (U.S., 1917–2008)
- 1995: Chūshirō Hayashi (Japan, 1920–2010)
- 1999: Walter Heinrich Munk (U.S., born 1917)
- 2003: Eugene Newman Parker (U.S., born 1927)
- 2007: Hiroo Kanamori (Japan, born 1936)
- 2011: Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Russia, born 1943)
Life sciences
- 1992: Yasutomi Nishizuka (Japan, 1932–2004)
- 1996: Mario Renato Capecchi (U.S., born 1937)
- 2000: Walter Jakob Gehring (Switzerland, born 1939)
- 2004: Alfred G. Knudson (U.S., born 1922)
- 2008: Anthony James Pawson (Canada / U.K., born 1952)
- 2012: Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan, born 1945) [2]
Cognitive science
- 1988: Avram Noam Chomsky (U.S., born 1928)
Advanced technology
Electronics
- 1985: Rudolf Emil Kalman (U.S., born 1930 in Budapest, Hungary)
- 1989: Amos E. Joel, Jr. (U.S., 1918–2008)
- 1993: Jack St. Clair Kilby (U.S., 1923–2005)
- 1997: Federico Faggin (Italy, born 1941), Marcian Edward Hoff Jr. (U.S., born 1937), Stanley Mazor (U.S., born 1941) Masatoshi Shima (Japan, born 1943)
- 2001: Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia, born 1930), Izuo Hayashi (Japan, 1922–2005), Morton B. Panish (U.S., born 1929)
- 2005: George H. Heilmeier (U.S., 1936–2014)
- 2009: Isamu Akasaki (Japan, born 1929)
- 2013: Robert H. Dennard (U.S., born 1932)
Biotechnology and medical technology
- 1986: Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France, born 1930)
- 1990: Sydney Brenner (South Africa, born 1927)
- 1994: Paul Christian Lauterbur (U.S., 1929–2007)
- 1998: Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland, born 1938)
- 2002: Leroy Edward Hood (U.S., born 1938)
- 2006: Leonard Herzenberg (U.S., 1931–2013)
- 2010: Shinya Yamanaka (Japan, born 1962)
- 2014: Robert S. Langer (U.S., born 1948)
Materials science and engineering
- 1987: Morris Cohen (U.S., 1911–2005)
- 1991: Michael Szwarc (U.S., 1909–2000)
- 1995: George William Gray (U.K., 1926–2013)
- 1999: W. David Kingery (U.S., 1926–2000)
- 2003: George McClelland Whitesides (U.S., born 1939)
- 2007: Hiroo Inokuchi (Japan, born 1927)
- 2011: John Werner Cahn (U.S., born 1928)
Information science
- 1988: John McCarthy (U.S., 1927–2011)
- 1992: Maurice Vincent Wilkes (U.K., 1913–2010)
- 1996: Donald Ervin Knuth (U.S., born 1938)
- 2000: Sir Antony Hoare (U.K., born 1934)
- 2004: Alan Curtis Kay (U.S., born 1940)
- 2008: Richard M. Karp (U.S., born 1935)
- 2012: Ivan Edward Sutherland (U.S., born 1938)
Arts and philosophy
Music
- 1985: Olivier Messiaen (France, 1908–1992)
- 1989: John Cage (U.S., 1912–1992)
- 1993: Witold Lutosławski (Poland, 1913–1994)
- 1997: Iannis Xenakis (France, 1922–2001)
- 2001: György Ligeti (Austria, 1923–2006)
- 2005: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, born 1929)
- 2009: Pierre Boulez (France, born 1925)
- 2013: Cecil Taylor (U.S., born 1929)
Arts
- 1986: Isamu Noguchi (U.S., 1904–1988)
- 1990: Renzo Piano (Italy, born 1937)
- 1995: Roy Lichtenstein (U.S., 1923–1997)
- 1998: Nam June Paik (U.S., 1932–2006)
- 2002: Tadao Ando (Japan, born 1941)
- 2006: Issey Miyake (Japan, born 1938)
- 2010: William Kentridge (South Africa, born 1955)
- 2014: Fukumi Shimura (Japan, born 1924)
Theater, cinema
- 1987: Andrzej Wajda (Poland, born 1926)
- 1991: Peter Stephen Paul Brook (U.K., born 1925)
- 1994: Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1910–1998)
- 1999: Maurice Béjart (France, 1927–2007)
- 2003: Tamao Yoshida (Japan, 1919–2006)
- 2007: Pina Bausch (Germany, 1940–2009)
- 2011: Tamasaburo Bando V (Japan, born 1950)
Thought and ethics
- 1988: Paul Thieme (Germany, 1905–2001)
- 1992: Karl Raimund Popper (U.K., 1902–1994)
- 1996: Willard Van Orman Quine (U.S., 1908–2000)
- 2000: Paul Ricœur (France, 1913–2005)
- 2004: Jürgen Habermas (Germany, born 1929)
- 2008: Charles Margrave Taylor (Canada, born 1931)
- 2012: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (India, born 1942)