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Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2020, which was postponed last Spring due to the spread of a new coronavirus infection, will be held online as the Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2021 and distributed from the University of Oxford.
In the first installment of the series “Unearthing the Words of Kyoto Prize Laureates,” we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Toyoki Kunitake, the 2015 Kyoto Prize laureate in the Advanced Technology category.
Dr. Isamu Akasaki, who contributed to the realization of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), passed away on April 1, 2021 at the age of 92. Dr. Akasaki conducted persistently intensive research on gallium nitride (GaN) and its application to LEDs. His efforts culminated in the pioneering realization of blue LEDs, which led to the birth of...
The 2020 Kyoto Prize Symposium (KPS), which was postponed in last March due to the spread of a new coronavirus infection, will be held online as the 2021 Kyoto Prize Symposium and distributed from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Presentations by the 2019 Kyoto Prize laureates, Dr. Ching W. Tang (Advanced Technology), Dr....
On March 15, 2021, Dr. László Lovász , the 2010 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, was awarded the Abel Prize which recognizes mathematicians with extraordinary achievements. Congratulations on this great honor! The Prize was jointly awarded to Dr. Avi Wigderson. It recognizes “their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their...
On March 5, 2021, Dr. Martha Craven Nussbaum , the 2016 Kyoto Prize laureate in Arts and Philosophy, was selected as the recipient of the Holberg Prize which honors scholars who have made outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. Many congratulations on this prestigious recognition! Dr. Nussbaum introduced the...
Dr. Isamu Akasaki, the 2009 Kyoto Prize laureate in Advanced Technology, was awarded the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering on February 2. The Prize recognizes researchers who have brought benefits to the world through groundbreaking technological innovations. Congratulations for the great honor! Dr. Akasaki’s persistent research on gallium nitride (GaN) and its application to...
“Savoring the Words from Kyoto Prize Laureates” is a series featuring the words of Kyoto Prize laureates. This is the second installment in the series. The words featured in this piece can be also enjoyed by touching the large displays at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art in Kyoto . We hope you will...
November 11──Commemorative Lectures by the Kyoto Prize laureates were to be held on this day. However, this year’s events have been postponed due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection. So instead, we have collected some of the words of the past laureates for your enjoyment. You can read the scripts of all the...
“Plants provide us with the splendid colours that they possess for nothing in return” —Fukumi Shimura, 2014 Kyoto Prize laureates in Arts and Philosophy The exhibition “Shimura Fukumi: Her Vocation to Weave Life” is running at Himeji City Museum of Art in Hyogo prefecture until August 30, 2020. This exhibition explores some 60 years of...
New exhibition featuring Dr. Masatoshi Nei, the 2013 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences opened at the University of Miyazaki. Dr. Nei, an evolutionary biologist, proposed what is now called “Nei’s Genetic Distance,” which quantifies differences in the vestiges of evolution that remain within proteins and DNA in his 1972 paper. This innovative idea has...
Dr. Jane Goodall, a primatologist and the 1990 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, was awarded 2020 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development on June 18, 2020. Through her 30-year extensive study on free-living chimpanzees, Dr. Goodall revealed their behavior, society, and ecology, including many startling discoveries such as their utilization and production of tools, and...