- List of Kyoto Prize winners
This is a list of
Kyoto Prize winners.Basic Sciences
Biological Sciences
* 1986:
George Evelyn Hutchinson (U.S., 1903 - 1991)
* 1990:Jane Goodall (UK, 1934)
* 1993:William Donald Hamilton (UK, 1936 - 2000)
* 1997:Daniel Hunt Janzen (U.S., 1939)
* 2001:John Maynard Smith (UK, 1920 - 2004)
* 2005:Simon Asher Levin (U.S., 1941)Mathematical Sciences
* 1985:
Claude Elwood Shannon (U.S., 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)
* 2006:Hirotugu Akaike (Japan, 1927)Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics
* 1987:
Jan Hendrik Oort (The Netherlands, 1900 - 1992)
* 1991:Edward Norton Lorenz (U.S., 1917 - 2008)
* 1995:Chushiro Hayashi (Japan, 1920)
* 1999:Walter Heinrich Munk (U.S., 1917)
* 2003:Eugene Newman Parker (U.S., 1927)
* 2007:Hiroo Kanamori (Japan, 1936)Life Sciences
* 1992:
Yasutomi Nishizuka (Japan, 1932 - 2004)
* 1996:Mario Renato Capecchi (U.S., 1937)
* 2000:Walter Jakob Gehring (Switzerland, 1939)
* 2004:Alfred G. Knudson (U.S., 1922)
* 2008: Anthony James Pawson (Canada / U.K., 1952)Cognitive Science
* 1988: Avram Noam Chomsky (U.S., 1928)
Advanced Technology
Electronics
* 1985:
Rudolf Emil Kalman (U.S., 1930)
* 1989:Amos E. Joel, Jr. (U.S., 1918)
* 1993:Jack St. Clair Kilby (U.S., 1923 - 2005)
* 1997:Federico Faggin (Italy, 1941),Stanley Mazor (U.S., 1941), Marcian Edward Hoff Jr. (U.S., 1937),Masatoshi Shima (Japan, 1943)
* 2001:Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia, 1930),Izuo Hayashi (Japan, 1922),Morton B. Panish (U.S., 1929)
* 2005:George H. Heilmeier (U.S., 1936)Biotechnology and Medical Technology
* 1986:
Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France, 1930)
* 1990:Sydney Brenner (UK, 1927)
* 1994:Paul Christian Lauterbur (U.S., 1929 - 2007)
* 1998:Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland, 1938)
* 2002:Leroy Edward Hood (U.S., 1938)
* 2006:Leonard Herzenberg (U.S., 1931)Materials Science and Engineering
* 1987: Morris Cohen (U.S., 1911 - 2005)
* 1991:Michael Szwarc (U.S., 1909 - 2000)
* 1995:George William Gray (UK, 1926)
* 1999:W. David Kingery (U.S., 1926 - 2000)
* 2003: George McClelland Whitesides (U.S., 1939)
* 2007:Hiroo Inokuchi (Japan, 1927)Information Science
* 1988: John McCarthy (U.S., 1927)
* 1992:Maurice Vincent Wilkes (UK, 1913)
* 1996:Donald Ervin Knuth (U.S., 1938)
* 2000:Antony Hoare (UK, 1934)
* 2004:Alan Curtis Kay (U.S., 1940)
* 2008:Richard M. Karp (U.S., 1935)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)
* 2005:Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, 1929)Arts
* 1986:
Isamu Noguchi (U.S., 1904 - 1998)
* 1990:Renzo Piano (Italy, 1937)
* 1995:Roy Lichtenstein (U.S., 1923 - 1997)
* 1998:Nam June Paik (U.S., 1932)
* 2002:Tadao Ando (Japan, 1941)
* 2006:Issey Miyake (Japan, 1938)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)
* 2007:Pina Bausch (Germany, 1940)Thought and Ethics
* 1988:
Paul Thieme (Germany, 1905 - 2001)
* 1992:Karl Raimund Popper (UK, 1902 - 1994)
* 1996:Willard Van Orman Quine (U.S., 1908 - 2000)
* 2000:Paul Ricœur (France, 1913 - 2005)
* 2004:Jürgen Habermas (Germany, 1929)
* 2008: Charles Margrave Taylor (Canada, 1931)
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