What is the Kyoto Prize?

The Kyoto Award was established with donation by Kazuo Inamori, the founder of Kyocera Corporation, and is an international award that recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of human science and civilization. The Kyoto Award is awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation and is divided into three major awards: "advanced technology", "basic science" and "ideology and art". [1]

Kyoto Prize

The Kyoto Prize was established with donation by Kazuo Inamori, founder of Kyocera Corporation.
This international award is used to reward those who have made significant contributions to the development of human science and civilization, and to deepen and enhance people's spiritual culture.
The Kyoto Awards include awards for cutting-edge technology, basic sciences, ideas and arts.
(1) The evaluation scope of cutting-edge technology awards includes: electronics, bioengineering and medical sciences, materials science and information science;
(2) The basic science awards are targeted at the fields of biological sciences, mathematical sciences, earth sciences, space sciences, and life sciences;
(3) Thought and art awards are targeted at the fields of music, fine arts, film, drama, philosophy, etc.
The winner of each branch award is one person in principle, and candidates are not restricted by nationality, race, gender, age and belief.
The Kyoto Prize is awarded once a year since 1985, and the award ceremony is arranged in November each year.
Winners receive a certificate of honor, a medal, and a prize of 50 million yen (approximately $ 425,000).
Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, the inventor of the LCD monitor, American George Heyermeier, has won the Kyoto Award.

-2008 Kyoto Awards Kyoto Awards-2008

On the afternoon of November 10, 2008, the "Kyoto Prize" [2] , which is known as the Nobel Prize in Japan, was held at the National Kyoto International Conference Hall.
Three scholars from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom shared the honor. The picture is the winner of this year's American computer scientist Richard Manning Karp, molecular biologist Anthony James Posen with Canadian and British dual nationality, Canadian philosopher Charles Margrave Taylor (left To the right), meet the media after the awards ceremony.

-2009 Kyoto Awards Kyoto Awards-2009

On November 10, 2009, four scholars from Japan, Britain, and France won the 2009 Kyoto Prize. On November 10, at the National Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan, the 2009 Kyoto Prize winner, British evolutionary biologist Peter Raymond Grant ( (Middle) Attend the award ceremony.
On the same day, the 2009 Kyoto Awards ceremony was held here.
Japanese semiconductor scientist Yu Akasaki,
Peter Raymond Grant, British evolutionary biologist
French composer and conductor Pierre Blair was awarded the Kyoto Prize, known as the "Nobel Prize in Japan."

-2010 Kyoto Awards Kyoto Awards-2010

On June 18, 2010, the Japan Inamori Foundation announced the list of winners of the 2010 " Kyoto Award " on its official website [3] .
Shinya Yamanaka, a scientist at Kyoto University in Japan, won this year's Advanced Technology Award for his findings on induced pluripotent stem cells;
László Lovász, a scientist at the University of Roland, Hungary, won the Basic Science Award for his contributions to mathematics and computer science;
Visual artist William Kentridge of Johannesburg, South Africa receives art and philosophy award.
Each winner will receive a prize of 50 million yen (about 3.8 million yuan). The 2010 Kyoto Awards ceremony will be held on November 10 in Kyoto, Japan.

-2011 Kyoto Awards Kyoto Awards-2011

Kyoto Awards 2011
On November 10, 2011, the National Kyoto International Association of Kyoto, Japan's Inamori Foundation, held the annual Kyoto Awards ceremony. [4]
John Werner Cahn, Honorary Senior Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Visiting Professor at the University of Washington, was awarded the Advanced Technology Award of the Year for his significant contributions to the field of alloy materials science and engineering.
German scientist Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (.Rashid Alievich Sunyaev) won the Basic Science Award for his achievements in the field of high-energy astronomy in the field of cosmic microwave background radiation fluctuations.
Japanese Kabuki actor Sakato Tamadaburo, who focused on Kabuki, transcended the many forms of stage art, created gorgeous beauty, and won art and philosophy awards. [5]

-2012 Kyoto Awards Kyoto Awards-2012

Visiting Researcher Ivan Edward Sutherland, University of Portland, U.S.A., Ryoden Ohori, Distinguished Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and Jayatri Chakravoti Spivak, Indian Professor, Columbia University, November 10 Japan won the 2012 Kyoto Award for important achievements.
The award ceremony was held in the afternoon of the same day at the National Kyoto International Hall in Japan. The establishment of the award, Inamura Yukio, president of the Inamori Foundation, awarded the three winners a certificate of honor, a medal, and a prize of 50 million yen (approximately 630,000 US dollars). Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Noda, US President Barack Obama and Indian President Mukherjee sent congratulatory messages to the winners.
The Kyoto Award is a well-known science and technology and literary achievement award in Japan. It is divided into three categories of cutting-edge technology, basic science, thought and art. It is awarded once a year. In principle, there is one winner in each category.
The winner of the cutting-edge technology award was Ivan Edward Sutherland, a visiting researcher and computer scientist at the University of Portland. Born in 1938, Sutherland made a pioneering contribution to the development of computer graphics and human-computer interactive interfaces.
Ryoden Ohori, a professor and molecular cell biologist at Tokyo Institute of Technology, won the Basic Science Award. Dasao Liangdian was born in 1945, and has made important achievements in the research of "autophagy" of cells. He has made significant contributions to clarify the mechanism of cell adaptation to the environment, the principle of "autophagy" and its physiological significance.
The winner of the Thought and Art Award is Indian Professor, Literary Critic and Educator Jayatti Chakravoti Spivak of Columbia University in the United States. She was born in 1942 because of the rational critique of "knowledge colonialism" ", Advocate open humanities and put them into practice [6] .

-2013 Kyoto Awards Kyoto Awards-2013

American inventor Robert Heath Dennard, evolutionary biologist Masaru Nei and musician Cecil Taylor, each won their 2013 Kyoto Well-known Science and Technology Achievement Award for their achievements on the 10th.
In the afternoon of the same day, at the National Kyoto International Conference Center in Japan, the president of the award establishment Inamura Yufu gave the three winners a certificate of honor, a medal, and a prize of 50 million yen (approximately $ 500,000). Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Barack Obama sent congratulatory messages to the winners.
The Kyoto Award is divided into three categories: "advanced technology", "basic science", and "ideology and art", and is awarded once a year. In principle, one winner is for each category.
Dennard, a 81-year-old researcher at IBM in the United States, won the cutting-edge technology award. He invented the basic structure of dynamic random access memory, which greatly increased the storage capacity and processing capacity of digital information, and enabled information and communication technology to leap forward. He and his colleagues also proposed a method that can subdivide the indispensable metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors in integrated circuits and contribute to the progress of the integrated circuit field.
Masaru Nei, a Japanese American professor at Pennsylvania State University and now 82 years old, won the Basic Science Award. He developed many statistical methods such as genetic distance, and used the principle of genetic variation and quantitative analysis of evolution time to study the evolutionary process of biological populations. These methods have not only promoted the development of evolutionary biology, but also contributed to many academic fields such as ecology and conservation biology.
The winner of the Thought and Art Award is 84-year-old American jazz musician Taylor. As a representative free jazz pianist, Taylor does not stick to the old rules. With his unique musical structure and percussion-like performance style, he has introduced a new improvisation mode, opening up new possibilities for the development of jazz And it has a huge impact on many areas of music. [7]

-2014 Kyoto Awards Kyoto Awards-2014

The 2014 Kyoto Awards was held in Kyoto, Japan on the 10th, and it was also the 30th Kyoto Awards. The 2014 Kyoto Awards were awarded in the fields of "Advanced Technology", "Basic Science" and "Thinking and Art" by Robert Samuel Lange, MIT Professor, and Edward, Professor of Princeton Institute of Technology. · Witten, Japan's dyeing and weaving family Shimura Fukumi.
Lange, 66-year-old (2014), winner of the Kyoto Award for Advanced Technology. He used biodegradable polymers to build cell "scaffolds" and successfully cultivated various internal organs, thus creating the indispensable tissue engineering in the development of regenerative medicine. At the same time, it has also developed controlled-release technologies for polymer drugs such as proteins and nucleic acids, actively promoted the practical application of drug delivery technology, and led the steady development of the cross-cutting field of medicine and engineering.
Witten, winner of the Kyoto Prize in basic sciences, 63 years old (2014). He played a leading role in the evolution of superstring theory and contributed greatly to theoretical physics.
The 90-year-old Japan's important intangible cultural heritage heir Shimura Shimura won the 2014 Kyoto Prize in the field of thought and art. She used traditional techniques to maintain the simplicity of the twisted silk. She also made ordinary twisted silk kimonos into exquisite works of art by using colored silk threads dyed from a variety of plants and plants to play brightly colored movements. [8]

-2019 Kyoto Awards Kyoto Awards-2019

The 2019 Kyoto Advanced Technology Award was awarded to Chinese American scientist Deng Qingyun, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in recognition of his pioneering contribution to the efficient and practical use of organic light emitting diodes; Gunn's research on the history of the universe For his contributions, he won the "Basic Science" award; Mnuskin won the "Thought and Art" award. She has continuously innovated the methods and expressions of drama for decades, and has contributed many original works to the world. [1]

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