What is the price of kyoto?
The Kyoto Award is an annual international prize awarded in three categories: Advanced Technology, Basic Science and Arts and Philosophy. Kazuo Inamori, a very successful Japanese entrepreneur who owes his assets of huge ceramics for the production of the company in Kyoto. On the 25th anniversary of the beginning of his company Kyocera, in 1984 Kazuo Inamori founded the Kyoto Award. The first prizes were awarded the following year in 1985. In this way, the price of Kyoto is slightly different from the Nobel Prize. Especially his category of art and philosophy, which tends to be awarded to musicians, filmmakers or philosophers.
There is one winner in each category per year. Each winner of the Kyoto Award will receive a diploma, a gold watch and 50 million yen, approximately 420,000 US dollars (USD). Each category has four fields and nominating members of the Kyoto Prize N FoundationAdation decides which field we choose each year for assessment.
For advanced technologies are fields of electronics, biotechnology and medical technology, material science and engineering and information science. Biological science, mathematics, earth and planetary sciences and life sciences are for basic science. In the category of art and philosophy there are fields of music, art, theater and cinema and idea and ethics.
The Kyoto Price Foundation invites the distinguishing members of each field to perform nominations. Then three committees are considered to help ensure that no bias are manifested at the prices. The Executive Committee of the Kyoto Award is issued by the final recommendations to the Board of Directors who vote on the annual valuable games.
The price must be granted individuals and not corporation, unlike the Nobel price. It can be shared if the vote is divided. But this is unusual.
past winners include Akira KurOsawa for his pioneering work in the film, Jane Goodall for her tireless study and defending for chimpanzy and noam Chomsky for her work in linguistics. The winners come mainly from the US, Europe and Japan, and some feel that some other continents are not sufficiently represented. So far, none of Australia, South America or Africa has won the Kyoto price.