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)
• 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)

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)

See also

• The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
• The Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
• The Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
• The Kyoto Prize