This is a list of Kyoto Prize winners. The Kyoto Prize (京都賞) has been awarded annually since 1984 by the Inamori Foundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori (fortune from ceramics). ...

Basic Sciences

Biological Sciences

• 1986: George Evelyn Hutchinson (US, 1903-1991)
• 1990: Jane Goodall (UK, 1934)
• 1993: William Donald Hamilton (UK, 1936-2000)
• 1997: Daniel Hunt Janzen (US, 1939)
• 2001: John Maynard Smith (UK, 1920-2004)
• 2005: Simon Asher Levin (US, 1941)

Jane Goodall Dame Jane Goodall DBE Ph. ... This article is about the British biologist Bill Hamilton. ... John Maynard Smith Professor John Maynard Smith, F.R.S. (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist. ...

Mathematical Sciences

• 1985: Claude Elwood Shannon (US, 1916-2001)
• 1989: Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand (Russia, 1913)
• 1994: André Weil (France, 1906-1998)
• 1998: Kiyoshi Itō (Japan, 1915)
• 2002: Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (France, 1943)

Claude Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called the father of information theory, and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. ... André Weil (May 6, 1906 - August 6, 1998) was one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century. ... Kiyoshi Itō Kiyoshi Itō (Japanese: 伊藤 清, born September 7, 1915) is a Japanese mathematician, was born in Hokusei-cho, Mie Prefecture Japan. ...

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

• 1987: Jan Hendrik Oort (The Netherlands, 1900-1992)
• 1991: Edward Norton Lorenz (US, 1917)
• 1995: Chushiro Hayashi (Japan, 1920)
• 1999: Walter Heinrich Munk (US, 1917)
• 2003: Eugene Newman Parker (US, 1927)

Jan Hendrik Oort (April 28, 1900 – November 5, 1992) was an internationally famous Dutch astronomer. ... Dr. Lorenz at work Edward Norton Lorenz is an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a contributor to the chaos theory and inventor of the strange attractor notion. ... Chushiro Hayashi (林忠四郎) (born July 25, 1920) is a Japanese astrophysicist. ...

Life Sciences

• 1992: Yasutomi Nishizuka (Japan, 1932-2004)
• 1996: Mario Renato Capecchi (US, 1937)
• 2000: Walter Jakob Gehring (Switzerland, 1939)
• 2004: Alfred G. Knudson (US, 1922)

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Cognitive Science

• 1988: Avram Noam Chomsky (US, 1928)

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

Advanced Technology

Electronics

• 1985: Rudolf Emil Kalman (US, 1930)
• 1989: Amos Edward Joel Jr. (US, 1918)
• 1993: Jack St. Clair Kilby (US, 1923-2005)
• 1997: Federico Faggin (Italy, 1941), Stanley Mazor (US, 1941), Marcian Edward Hoff Jr. (US, 1937), Masatoshi Shima (Japan, 1943)
• 2001: Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia, 1930), Izuo Hayashi (Japan, 1922), Morton B. Panish (US, 1929)
• 2005: George H. Heilmeier (US, 1936)

Bio Federico Faggin (born 1941) is a physicist and electrical engineer considered to be one of the inventors of the microprocessor. ... Masatoshi Shima was at least partly responsible for the design of the worlds first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. ... Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (also Alfyorov) (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров) (born March 15, 1930) is a Russian physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. ...

Biotechnology and Medical Technology

• 1986: Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France, 1930)
• 1990: Sydney Brenner (UK, 1927)
• 1994: Paul Christian Lauterbur (US, 1929)
• 1998: Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland, 1938)
• 2002: Leroy Edward Hood (US, 1938)

Sydney Brenner,CH (born 1927 January 13) is a British biologist active in the United States. ... Kurt Wüthrich (born October 4, 1938) is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate. ...

Materials Science and Engineering

• 1987: Morris Cohen (US, 1911-2005)
• 1991: Michael Szwarc (US, 1909-2000)
• 1995: George William Gray (UK, 1926)
• 1999: W. David Kingery (US, 1926-2000)
• 2003: George McClelland Whitesides (US, 1939)

There are a couple of known Morris Cohens: Morris Two-Gun Cohen (1887-1970) was a British-born adventurer who became a bodyguard for Sun Yat-sen. ... Michael Szwarc is a British polymer chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. ...

Information Science

• 1988: John McCarthy (US, 1927)
• 1992: Maurice Vincent Wilkes (UK, 1913)
• 1996: Donald Ervin Knuth (US, 1938)
• 2000: Antony Hoare (UK, 1934)
• 2004: Alan Curtis Kay (US, 1940)

John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer scientist and notable Usenetter who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence. ... Maurice V. Wilkes Maurice Vincent Wilkes (born June 26, 1913 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England) is a British computer scientist, credited with several important developments in computing. ... Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. ...

Arts and Philosophy

Music

• 1985: Olivier Messiaen (France, 1908-1992)
• 1989: John Cage (US, 1912-1992)
• 1993: Witold Lutosławski (Poland, 1913-1994)
• 1997: Iannis Xenakis (France, 1922-2001)
• 2001: György Ligeti (Austria, 1923)
• 2005: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, 1929)

Olivier Messiaen. ... John Cage John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer, writer and visual artist. ... Witold Lutosławski at his home. ... Iannis Xenakis (Ιάννης Ξενάκης) (May 29, 1922 Brăila - February 4, 2001 Paris) was a Greek composer and architect who spent much of his life in Paris. ... György Sándor Ligeti (born May 28, 1923) is a Jewish Hungarian composer (now living in, and a citizen of, Austria), widely seen as one of the great composers of instrumental music of the 20th century. ... Nikolaus Harnoncourt (born December 6, 1929) is an Austrian conductor, known for his historically accurate performances of music from the classical era and earlier. ...

Arts

• 1986: Isamu Noguchi (US, 1904-1998)
• 1990: Renzo Piano (Italy, 1937)
• 1995: Roy Lichtenstein (US, 1923-1997)
• 1998: Nam June Paik (US, 1932)
• 2002: Tadao Ando (Japan, 1941)

Isamu Noguchi, 1941. ... The Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church in San Giovanni Rotondo. ... House I, created by Lichtenstein in 1996, is designed to be an optical illusion. ... Paik Nam-june (born July 20, 1932) is a South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art. ... The Westin Awaji Island designed by Ando The Water Temple in Awaji Shima, Japan Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄 Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture is sometimes categorised as Critical Regionalism. ...

Theater, Cinema

• 1987: Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1926)
• 1991: Peter Stephen Paul Brook (UK, 1925)
• 1994: Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1910-1998)
• 1999: Maurice Béjart (France, 1927)
• 2003: Tamao Yoshida (Japan, 1919)

Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda (born March 6, 1926) is a Polish film director, one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School. ... Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明 in Shinjitai, 23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. ... Maurice Béjart (born January 1, 1927) is the French choreographer who runs the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. ...

Thought and Ethics

• 1988: Paul Thieme (Germany, 1905-2001)
• 1992: Karl Raimund Popper (UK, 1902-1994)
• 1996: Willard Van Orman Quine (US, 1908-2000)
• 2000: Paul Ricœur (France, 1913-2005)
• 2004: Jürgen Habermas (Germany, 1929)