The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
Awarded forGlobal achievement in Advanced Technology
LocationKyoto, Japan
Presented byInamori Foundation
First awarded1985
Websitekyotoprize.org

The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology is awarded once a year by the Inamori Foundation. The Prize is one of three Kyoto Prize categories; the others are the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences and the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. The first Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology was awarded to Rudolf E. Kálmán, the "creator of modern control and system theory".[1] The Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in fields which are traditionally not honored with a Nobel Prize.[2][3]

Fields

The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology is awarded on a rotating basis to researchers in the following four fields:

Laureates

Source: Kyoto Prize

Electronics

Year Laureate Country
1985 Rudolf Emil Kálmán  Hungary /  United States 1930–2016 Establishment of the Modern Control Theory Based on the State Space Approach[4]
1989 Amos E. Joel, Jr.  United States 1918–2008 Pioneering Contribution to the Electronic Switching Technology for Telecommunications, Especially that Based on the Concept of "Stored Program Control"[5]
1993 Jack St. Clair Kilby  United States 1923–2005 Creation of the Concept of the Monolithic Semiconductor Integrated Circuit and Its Demonstration[6]
1997 Stanley Mazor  United States born 1941 Development of the World’s First Microprocessor[7][8][9][10]
Marcian Edward Hoff Jr.  United States born 1937
Federico Faggin  Italy born 1941
Masatoshi Shima  Japan born 1943
2001 Morton B. Panish  United States born 1929 A Pioneering Step in the Development of Optoelectronics through Success in Continuous Operation of Semiconductor Lasers at Room Temperature[11][12][13]
Izuo Hayashi  Japan 1922–2005
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov  Russia 1930–2019
2005 George H. Heilmeier  United States 1936–2014 Pioneering contributions to the realization of flat-panel displays using liquid crystals[14]
2009 Isamu Akasaki  Japan born 1929 Pioneering Work on Gallium Nitride p-n Junctions and Related Contributions to the Development of Blue Light Emitting Devices[15]
2013 Robert H. Dennard  United States born 1932 Invention of Dynamic Random Access Memory and Proposal of Guidelines for FET Miniaturization[16]
2017 Takashi Mimura [de]  Japan born 1944 Invention of the High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) and Its Development for the Progress of Information and Communications Technology[17]
2022 Carver Mead  United States born 1934 Leading Contributions to the Establishment of the Guiding Principles for VLSI Systems Design.[18]

Biotechnology and medical technology

Year Laureate Country
1986 Nicole Marthe Le Douarin  France born 1930 Outstanding Contribution to Embryology through the Development of the Technology for Making Chicken/Quail Chimeras[19]
1990 Sydney Brenner  United Kingdom 1927–2019 Pioneering Contribution to Molecular Biology through Demonstration of Messenger RNA and Establishment of C. Elegans as an Experimental System for Developmental Biology[20]
1994 Paul Christian Lauterbur  United States 1929–2007 Proposal of the Basic Principles and Outstanding Contribution to the Development of MRI that Confers a Great Benefit on Clinical Medicine[21]
1998 Kurt Wüthrich   Switzerland born 1938 Outstanding Contribution to Biology through the Expansion of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy to the Structure Analyses of Biological Macromolecules in Water Solution, an Environment Similar to That in the Living Cell[22]
2002 Leroy Edward Hood  United States born 1938 Contributions to life sciences through the automation of protein and DNA sequencing and synthesis[23]
2006 Leonard Herzenberg  United States 1931–2013 Outstanding contribution to life sciences with the development of a flow cytometer that uses fluorescent-labeled monoclonal antibodies[24]
2010 Shinya Yamanaka  Japan born 1962 Development of Technology for Generating Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells[25]
2014 Robert S. Langer  United States born 1948 Creation of Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery System Technologies[26]
2018 Karl Deisseroth  United States born 1971 Discovery of Optogenetics and Development of Causal Systems Neuroscience[27]
2023 Ryuzo Yanagimachi  United States born 1928 Contributions to the Elucidation of Fertilization Mechanisms and the Establishment of Microinsemination Technology[28]

Materials science and engineering

Year Laureate Country
1987 Morris Cohen  United States 1911–2005 Fundamental Contribution to Development of New Materials Based on Creation of Broad and Basic Insights into the Metal Phase Transformation and Structure-Property Relationship[29]
1991 Michael Szwarc  United States 1909–2000 Pioneering Contribution to Research and Development of Polymeric Materials by Discovering "Living Polymerization"[30]
1995 George William Gray  United Kingdom 1926–2013 Fundamental Contribution to Research and Development of Liquid Crystal Materials by Establishing the Practical Molecular Design Methods[31]
1999 W. David Kingery  United States 1926–2000 Fundamental Contribution to Development of the Ceramics Science and Technology Based on the Physicochemical Theory[32]
2003 George McClelland Whitesides  United States born 1939 Contributions to Nanomaterials Science through the Development of Organic Molecular Self-Assembly Technique[33]
2007 Hiroo Inokuchi [de]  Japan 1927–2014 Pioneering and Fundamental Contributions to Organic Molecular Electronics[34]
2011 John Werner Cahn  United States 1928–2016 Outstanding Contribution to Alloy Materials Engineering by the Establishment of Spinodal Decomposition Theory[35]
2015 Toyoki Kunitake [de]  Japan born 1936 Pioneering Contributions to the Materials Sciences by Discovering Synthetic Bilayer Membranes and Creating the Field of Chemistry Based on Molecular Self-Assembly[36]
2019 Ching W. Tang  China

 United States

born 1947 Pioneering Contributions to the Birth of High-Efficiency Organic Light-Emitting Diodes and Their Applications.[37]

Information science

Year Laureate Country
1988 John McCarthy  United States 1927–2011 Fundamental Contribution to the Field of Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of LISP, a Programming Language[38]
1992 Maurice Vincent Wilkes  United Kingdom 1913–2010 Building and Designing the First Practical Stored Program Computer and Pioneering Studies of Computer Architecture[39]
1996 Donald Ervin Knuth  United States born 1938 Outstanding Contribution to Various Fields of the Computer Science Ranging from the Art of Computer Programming to the Development of Epoch-Making Electronic Publishing Tools[40]
2000 Antony Hoare  United Kingdom born 1934 Pioneering and Fundamental Contributions to the Progress of Software Science[41]
2004 Alan Curtis Kay  United States born 1940 Creation of the concept of modern personal computing and contribution to its realization[42]
2008 Richard M. Karp  United States born 1935 Fundamental Contributions to the Development of the Theory of Computational Complexity[43]
2012 Ivan Edward Sutherland  United States born 1938 Pioneering Achievements in the Development of Computer Graphics and Interactive Interfaces[44]
2016 Takeo Kanade  Japan born 1945 Pioneering Contributions, both Theoretical and Practical, to Computer Vision and Robotics[45]
2020 No award because of COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Andrew Chi-Chih Yao  China born 1946 Pioneering Contributions to a New Theory of Computation and Communication and a Fundamental Theory for its Security.[46]

See also

References

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  5. ^ "Amos Edward Joel, Jr". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  6. ^ "Jack St. Clair Kilby". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  7. ^ "Stanley Mazor". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  8. ^ "Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  9. ^ "Federico Faggin". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  10. ^ "Masatoshi Shima". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  11. ^ "Morton B. Panish". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  12. ^ "Izuo Hayashi". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  13. ^ "Zhores Ivanovich Alferov". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  14. ^ "George H. Heilmeier". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  15. ^ "Isamu Akasaki". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  16. ^ "Robert Heath Dennard". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  17. ^ "Takashi Mimura". Archived from the original on 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  18. ^ Carver Mead 2022
  19. ^ "Nicole Marthe Le Douarin". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  20. ^ "Sydney Brenner". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  21. ^ "Paul Christian Lauterbur". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  22. ^ "Kurt Wüthrich". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  23. ^ "Leroy Edward Hood". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  24. ^ "Leonard Arthur Herzenberg". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  25. ^ "Shinya Yamanaka". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  26. ^ "Robert Samuel Langer". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  27. ^ "Karl Deisseroth". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  28. ^ "Ryuzo Yanagimachi". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  29. ^ "Morris Cohen". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  30. ^ "Michael Szwarc". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  31. ^ "George William Gray". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  32. ^ "W. David Kingery". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  33. ^ "George McClelland Whitesides". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  34. ^ "Hiroo Inokuchi". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  35. ^ "John Werner Cahn". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  36. ^ "Toyoki Kunitake". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  37. ^ Ching W. Tang
  38. ^ "John McCarthy". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  39. ^ "Maurice Vincent Wilkes". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  40. ^ "Donald Ervin Knuth". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  41. ^ "Antony Hoare". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  42. ^ "Alan Curtis Kay". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  43. ^ "Richard Manning Karp". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  44. ^ "Ivan Edward Sutherland". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  45. ^ "Takeo Kanade". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  46. ^ Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
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