- Nishina Memorial Prize
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Nishina Memorial Prize (仁科記念賞 Nishina Kinenshō ) is the oldest and most prestigious physics award in Japan.[1] Since 1955, the Prize has been awarded annually by the Nishina Memorial Foundation.[2] The Foundation was established to commemorate Yoshio Nishina, who was the founding father of modern physics research in Japan and a mentor of the first two Japanese Nobel Laureates, Hideki Yukawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.
Nishina Laureates[3][4]
- 1955: Kazuhiko Nishijima
- 1957: Ryogo Kubo
- 1959: Leo Esaki (1973 Nobel Prize)
- 1963: Chushiro Hayashi (1995 Kyoto Prize)
- 1972: Kyozi Kawasaki (2001 Boltzmann Medal)
- 1976: Susumu Okubo (2005 Sakurai Prize, 2006 Wigner Medal)
- 1978: Akito Arima
- 1979: Makoto Kobayashi (2008 Nobel Prize), Toshihide Maskawa (2008 Nobel Prize)
- 1985: Sumio Iijima (2008 Kavli Prize)
- 1987: Masatoshi Koshiba (2002 Nobel Prize), Yoji Totsuka (2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal)
- 1992: Yoshihisa Yamamoto
- 2009: Hirosi Ooguri
References
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