List of Kyoto Prize winners

This is a list of Kyoto Prize winners.

Basic sciences

Biological sciences

1986: George Evelyn Hutchinson (U.S., 1903–1987)
1990: Jane Goodall (U.K., born 1934)
1993: William Donald Hamilton (U.K., 1936–2000)
1997: Daniel Hunt Janzen (U.S., born 1939)
2001: John Maynard Smith (U.K., 1920–2004)
2005: Simon Asher Levin (U.S., born 1941)
2009: Peter Grant (U.K., born 1936) and Rosemary Grant (U.K., born 1936) ^[1]
2013: Masatoshi Nei (U.S., born 1931)

Mathematical sciences

1985: Claude Elwood Shannon (U.S.A., 1916–2001)
1989: Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand (Russia, 1913–2009)
1994: André Weil (France, 1906–1998)
1998: Kiyoshi Itō (Japan, 1915–2008)
2002: Mikhail Gromov (France, born 1943)
2006: Hirotsugu Akaike (Japan, 1927–2009)
2010: László Lovász (Hungary, born 1948)
2014: Edward Witten (U.S.A., born 1951)

Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics

1987: Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands, 1900–1992)
1991: Edward Norton Lorenz (U.S., 1917–2008)
1995: Chūshirō Hayashi (Japan, 1920–2010)
1999: Walter Heinrich Munk (U.S., born 1917)
2003: Eugene Newman Parker (U.S., born 1927)
2007: Hiroo Kanamori (Japan, born 1936)
2011: Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Russia, born 1943)
2015: Michel Mayor (Switzerland, born 1942)

Life sciences

1992: Yasutomi Nishizuka (Japan, 1932–2004)
1996: Mario Renato Capecchi (U.S., born 1937)
2000: Walter Jakob Gehring (Switzerland, born 1939)
2004: Alfred G. Knudson (U.S., born 1922)
2008: Anthony James Pawson (Canada / U.K., born 1952)
2012: Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan, born 1945) ^[2]

Cognitive science

1988: Avram Noam Chomsky (U.S., born 1928)

Advanced technology

Electronics

1985: Rudolf Emil Kalman (U.S., born 1930 in Budapest, Hungary)
1989: Amos E. Joel, Jr. (U.S., 1918–2008)
1993: Jack St. Clair Kilby (U.S., 1923–2005)
1997: Federico Faggin (Italy, born 1941), Marcian Edward Hoff Jr. (U.S., born 1937), Stanley Mazor (U.S., born 1941) Masatoshi Shima (Japan, born 1943)
2001: Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia, born 1930), Izuo Hayashi (Japan, 1922–2005), Morton B. Panish (U.S., born 1929)
2005: George H. Heilmeier (U.S., 1936–2014)
2009: Isamu Akasaki (Japan, born 1929)
2013: Robert H. Dennard (U.S., born 1932)

Biotechnology and medical technology

1986: Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France, born 1930)
1990: Sydney Brenner (South Africa, born 1927)
1994: Paul Christian Lauterbur (U.S., 1929–2007)
1998: Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland, born 1938)
2002: Leroy Edward Hood (U.S., born 1938)
2006: Leonard Herzenberg (U.S., 1931–2013)
2010: Shinya Yamanaka (Japan, born 1962)
2014: Robert S. Langer (U.S., born 1948)

Materials science and engineering

1987: Morris Cohen (U.S., 1911–2005)
1991: Michael Szwarc (U.S., 1909–2000)
1995: George William Gray (U.K., 1926–2013)
1999: W. David Kingery (U.S., 1926–2000)
2003: George McClelland Whitesides (U.S., born 1939)
2007: Hiroo Inokuchi (Japan, born 1927)
2011: John Werner Cahn (U.S., born 1928)
2015: Toyoki Kunitake (Japan, born 1936)

Information science

1988: John McCarthy (U.S., 1927–2011)
1992: Maurice Vincent Wilkes (U.K., 1913–2010)
1996: Donald Ervin Knuth (U.S., born 1938)
2000: Sir Antony Hoare (U.K., born 1934)
2004: Alan Curtis Kay (U.S., born 1940)
2008: Richard M. Karp (U.S., born 1935)
2012: Ivan Edward Sutherland (U.S., born 1938)

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, 1923–2006)
2005: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, born 1929)
2009: Pierre Boulez (France, born 1925)
2013: Cecil Taylor (U.S., born 1929)

Arts

1986: Isamu Noguchi (U.S., 1904–1988)
1990: Renzo Piano (Italy, born 1937)
1995: Roy Lichtenstein (U.S., 1923–1997)
1998: Nam June Paik (U.S., 1932–2006)
2002: Tadao Ando (Japan, born 1941)
2006: Issey Miyake (Japan, born 1938)
2010: William Kentridge (South Africa, born 1955)
2014: Fukumi Shimura (Japan, born 1924)

Theater, cinema

1987: Andrzej Wajda (Poland, born 1926)
1991: Peter Stephen Paul Brook (U.K., born 1925)
1994: Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1910–1998)
1999: Maurice Béjart (France, 1927–2007)
2003: Tamao Yoshida (Japan, 1919–2006)
2007: Pina Bausch (Germany, 1940–2009)
2011: Tamasaburo Bando V (Japan, born 1950)
2015: John Neumeier (U.S., born 1942)

Thought and ethics

1988: Paul Thieme (Germany, 1905–2001)
1992: Karl Raimund Popper (U.K., 1902–1994)
1996: Willard Van Orman Quine (U.S., 1908–2000)
2000: Paul Ricœur (France, 1913–2005)
2004: Jürgen Habermas (Germany, born 1929)
2008: Charles Margrave Taylor (Canada, born 1931)
2012: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (India, born 1942)

References

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