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Dr. Michel Mayor, the 2015 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences was announced as a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Extrasolar Planet on October 8, 2019. Congratulations! None of the existence of exoplanets orbiting Sun-like star has been discovered over 50 years, before Dr. Mayor found out the exoplanet...
The Inamori Foundation (President: Shinobu Inamori-Knazawa) is pleased to announce the event schedule of the 2019 Kyoto Prize, including the Prize Presentation Ceremony on November 10 and opportunities for the media interviewing with the laureates. Your attention would be highly appreciated.
On June 28, 2019, SIA announced Dr. Robert Dennard has been named the 2019 recipient of SIA’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award. Dennard will accept the award at the SIA Award Dinner on Nov. 7, 2019 in San Jose. “Dr. Dennard is a semiconductor industry icon, inventing the memory technology underpinning every computer,...
The Kyoto Prize laureates are the invited speakers at “Kyoto Prize at Oxford,” that was held in the University of Oxford, U.K. To extend the recognition of the Kyoto Prize not only in U.K. but across whole Europe, the symposium has been held since 2017. This year marks the third year.
A great oceanographer, Dr. Walter H. Munk completed a long journey of his life on February 8, 2019. He was 101.
On February 5, Northwestern University, the United States announced that Dr. Alan Kay known as a father of “personal computer” would receive honorary degree from the university.
How does human being revere nature and live together? Dyeing and weaving artist Fukumi Shimura and author Michiko Ishimure are fused into new Noh play Okinomiya. Hand in hand, they appealed to the public a dignity of life beyond space and time. NHK production looked deeply into the background before realizing the eventual stage. Shimura’s...
Gallery WAKO WORKS OF ART, Roppongi: Tokyo, is holding the Joan Jonas personal exhibition “Simple Things” until December 26.
In 1970s, Joan Jonas established the new Artistic Expression by integrating Performance and New Media. The Inamori Foundation will hold “Solo Performance” and “Exhibition” at Kyoto in December, 2019; her largest ever event in Japan to honor the 2018 Kyoto Prize laureate.
On October 29, Mozart’s masterpiece The Magic Flute that William Kentridge directed was presented at ROHM Theatre Kyoto.
On October 30, 2018, the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles, California announced its selection of Martha C. Nussbaum as the winner of the 2018 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH Director: Francis S. Collins) has awarded 89 grants that will provide funding, total approximately $282 million expected over five years to extraordinarily creative scientists proposing highly innovative research to address major challenges in biomedical science.