Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology

Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
VenueKyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan
Presented byInamori Foundation
Reward¥100,000,000
First award1985
Websitewww.kyotoprize.org

The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology is awarded annually 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:

  • Electronics
  • Biotechnology and Medical Technology
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Information Science

Laureates

Electronics

Year Laureate Country[a] Citation Ref.
Image Name
1985 Rudolf Emil Kalman  Switzerland "Establishment of the Modern Control Theory Based on the State Space Approach." [4]
1989 Amos E. Joel, Jr. United States "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 "Creation of the Concept of the Monolithic Semiconductor Integrated Circuit and Its Demonstration." [6]
1997 Federico Faggin United States "Development of the World’s First Microprocessor." [7]
Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr. United States [8]
Stanley Mazor United States [9]
Masatoshi Shima Japan [10]
2001 Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Russia "A Pioneering Step in the Development of Optoelectronics through Success in Continuous Operation of Semiconductor Lasers at Room Temperature." [11]
Izuo Hayashi Japan [12]
Morton B. Panish United States [13]
2005 George H. Heilmeier United States "Pioneering contributions to the realization of flat-panel displays using liquid crystals." [14]
2009 Isamu Akasaki Japan "Pioneering Work on Gallium Nitride p-n Junctions and Related Contributions to the Development of Blue Light Emitting Devices." [15]
2013 Robert Heath Dennard United States "Invention of Dynamic Random Access Memory and Proposal of Guidelines for FET Miniaturization." [16]
2017 Takashi Mimura Japan 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 "Leading Contributions to the Establishment of the Guiding Principles for VLSI Systems Design." [18]

Biotechnology and Medical Technology

Year Laureate Country[a] Citation Ref.
Image Name
1986 Nicole Marthe Le Douarin France "Outstanding Contribution to Embryology through the Development of the Technology for Making Chicken/Quail Chimeras." [19]
1990 Sydney Brenner United Kingdom "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 "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 "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 "Contributions to life sciences through the automation of protein and DNA sequencing and synthesis." [23]
2006 Leonard Arthur Herzenberg United States "Outstanding contribution to life sciences with the development of a flow cytometer that uses fluorescent-labeled monoclonal antibodies." [24]
2010 Shinya Yamanaka Japan "Development of Technology for Generating Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells." [25]
2014 Robert Samuel Langer United States "Creation of Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery System Technologies." [26]
2018 Karl Deisseroth United States "Discovery of Optogenetics and Development of Causal Systems Neuroscience." [27]
2023 Ryuzo Yanagimachi United States "Contributions to the Elucidation of Fertilization Mechanisms and the Establishment of Microinsemination Technology." [28]

Materials Science and Engineering

Year Laureate Country[a] Citation Ref.
Image Name
1987 Morris Cohen United States "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 "Pioneering Contribution to Research and Development of Polymeric Materials by Discovering 'Living Polymerization'." [30]
1995 George William Gray United Kingdom "Fundamental Contribution to Research and Development of Liquid Crystal Materials by Establishing the Practical Molecular Design Methods." [31]
1999 W. David Kingery United States "Fundamental Contribution to Development of the Ceramics Science and Technology Based on the Physicochemical Theory." [32]
2003 George McClelland Whitesides United States "Contributions to Nanomaterials Science through the Development of Organic Molecular Self-Assembly Technique." [33]
2007 Hiroo Inokuchi Japan "Pioneering and Fundamental Contributions to Organic Molecular Electronics." [34]
2011 John Werner Cahn United States "Outstanding Contribution to Alloy Materials Engineering by the Establishment of Spinodal Decomposition Theory." [35]
2015 Toyoki Kunitake Japan "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 Hong Kong
United States 		"Pioneering Contributions to the Birth of High-Efficiency Organic Light-Emitting Diodes and Their Applications." [37]
2024 John Pendry United Kingdom "Contribution of the Theoretical Construction of Metamaterials to the Field of Material Science." [38]

Information Science

Year Laureate Country[a] Citation Ref.
Image Name
1988 John McCarthy United States "Fundamental Contribution to the Field of Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of LISP, a Programming Language." [39]
1992 Maurice Vincent Wilkes United Kingdom "Building and Designing the First Practical Stored Program Computer and Pioneering Studies of Computer Architecture." [40]
1996 Donald Ervin Knuth United States "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." [41]
2000 Antony Hoare United Kingdom "Pioneering and Fundamental Contributions to the Progress of Software Science." [42]
2004 Alan Curtis Kay United States "Creation of the concept of modern personal computing and contribution to its realization." [43]
2008 Richard Manning Karp United States "Fundamental Contributions to the Development of the Theory of Computational Complexity." [44]
2012 Ivan Edward Sutherland United States "Pioneering Achievements in the Development of Computer Graphics and Interactive Interfaces." [45]
2016 Takeo Kanade United States "Pioneering Contributions, both Theoretical and Practical, to Computer Vision and Robotics." [46]
2020 No award because of COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Andrew Chi-Chih Yao China "Pioneering Contributions to a New Theory of Computation and Communication and a Fundamental Theory for its Security." [47]
2025 Shun-ichi Amari Japan "Pioneering Contributions to Opening Up Theoretical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of Information Geometry." [48]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d The country in which the laureate's academic affiliation is based, according to the Kyoto Prize website.

References

  1. ^ "Rudolf Emil Kalman". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  2. ^ "Kyoto Prize honors achievement and character". USA Today. November 11, 2006. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
  3. ^ "John Cahn to Receive 2011 Kyoto Prize For Fundamental Contributions to Materials Science". National Institute of Standards and Technology. June 24, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
  4. ^ "Rudolf Emil Kalman". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  5. ^ "Amos Edward Joel, Jr". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  6. ^ "Jack St. Clair Kilby". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  7. ^ "Federico Faggin". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  8. ^ "Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  9. ^ "Stanley Mazor". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  10. ^ "Masatoshi Shima". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  11. ^ "Zhores Ivanovich Alferov". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  12. ^ "Izuo Hayashi". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  13. ^ "Morton B. Panish". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  14. ^ "George H. Heilmeier". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  15. ^ "Isamu Akasaki". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  16. ^ "Robert Heath Dennard". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  17. ^ "Takashi Mimura". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
  18. ^ "Carver Mead". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  19. ^ "Nicole Marthe Le Douarin". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  20. ^ "Sydney Brenner". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  21. ^ "Paul Christian Lauterbur". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  22. ^ "Kurt Wüthrich". www.kyotoprize.org. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  23. ^ "Leroy Edward Hood". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  24. ^ "Leonard Arthur Herzenberg". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  25. ^ "Shinya Yamanaka". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  26. ^ "Robert Samuel Langer". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  27. ^ "Karl Deisseroth". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  28. ^ "Ryuzo Yanagimachi". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
  29. ^ "Morris Cohen". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  30. ^ "Michael Szwarc". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  31. ^ "George William Gray". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  32. ^ "W. David Kingery". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  33. ^ "George McClelland Whitesides". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  34. ^ "Hiroo Inokuchi". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  35. ^ "John Werner Cahn". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  36. ^ "Toyoki Kunitake". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  37. ^ "Ching W. Tang". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
  38. ^ "John Pendry". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
  39. ^ "John McCarthy". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  40. ^ "Maurice Vincent Wilkes". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  41. ^ "Donald Ervin Knuth". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  42. ^ "Antony Hoare". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  43. ^ "Alan Curtis Kay". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  44. ^ "Richard Manning Karp". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  45. ^ "Ivan Edward Sutherland". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  46. ^ "Takeo Kanade". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  47. ^ "Andrew Chi-Chih Yao". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
  48. ^ "Shun-ichi Amari". www.kyotoprize.org. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
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