Kyoto Prize

Kyoto Prize

The Kyoto Prize is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind".

Kyoto Prize People (First 48 people) - Page 0

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

English primatologist

Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner

South African biologist

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda

Polish film director

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

French composer

Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland

American computer scientist

John Neumeier

John Neumeier

American ballet dancer

Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

American computer scientist

John McCarthy

John McCarthy

Former United States Representative

Alan Kay

Alan Kay

American computer scientist

Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon

American mathematician

Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano

Senator of the Italian Republic

W. D. Hamilton

W. D. Hamilton

British evolutionary biologist

John Maynard Smith

John Maynard Smith

British mathematician

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Austrian conductor

Robert H. Dennard

Robert H. Dennard

American electrical engineer

Isamu Akasaki

Isamu Akasaki

Japanese engineer

Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

Mathematician

Robert S. Langer

Robert S. Langer

American chemical engineer

Tony Hoare

Tony Hoare

British computer scientist

Edward Norton Lorenz

Edward Norton Lorenz

American mathematician

Federico Faggin

Federico Faggin

Italian physicist

Zhores Alferov

Zhores Alferov

Soviet-Russian physicist

William Kentridge

William Kentridge

South African artist

Toshio Hosokawa

Toshio Hosokawa

Japanese composer

Alfred G. Knudson

Alfred G. Knudson

American physician

Walter Heinrich

Walter Heinrich

Austrian economist

Andrzej Person

Andrzej Person

Senator of the Republic of Poland

Leonard Herzenberg

Leonard Herzenberg

Immunologist

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin

Biologist

Sándor György

Sándor György

Writer

Shanon

Shanon

Musical group

Rashid Sunyaev

Rashid Sunyaev

Physics researcher

Chushiro Hayashi

Chushiro Hayashi

Japanese astrophysicist

George H. Heilmeier

George H. Heilmeier

American engineer

Richard Hoare

Richard Hoare


Bill Hamilton

Bill Hamilton

New Zealand engineer

Tony Hoar

Tony Hoar

British cyclist

tasuku

tasuku

Japanese music executive

Tony Pawson

Tony Pawson

English cricketer

Izuo Hayashi

Izuo Hayashi

Japanese physicist

Shannon

Shannon

British singer

Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum

American philosopher

Masatoshi Shima

Masatoshi Shima

Japanese electronics engineer

Masaki Kashiwara

Masaki Kashiwara

Japanese mathematician

Hirotugu Akaike

Hirotugu Akaike

Japanese statistician

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Japanese biologist

George William Gray

George William Gray

Chemist

Jan Oort

Jan Oort

Dutch astronomer