Japan Prize
The Japan Prize ( Japanese 日本 国際 賞 , Nihon Kokusai Shō , German “International Japan Prize”) is an award given annually for outstanding achievements in the field of science or technology .
description
The Japan Prize is endowed with a total of 50 million yen (approx. 490,000 euros) per year. According to its statutes, it can be awarded to living scientists from all over the world and enjoys a reputation in Asia and among researchers that is comparable to that of the Nobel Prize .
history
The Japan Prize was initiated in 1981 by several Japanese industrialists and is awarded by The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan . The prize was first awarded in 1985.
Award ceremony
The handover of the Japan Prize takes place in April in the course of a solemn ceremony in the National Theater in Hayabusachō , in which the entire Japanese government takes part: Emperor and Empress , the Prime Minister , the Presidents of the two houses of the Japanese Parliament and the Chairman of the Supreme Court . The award ceremony is the culmination of a week of festivities, officially called Japan Prize Week in Japan , in which specialist congresses and official receptions (including at the Prime Minister's) take place.
Winner of the Japan Prize
- 1985: John R. Pierce , Ephraim Katzir
- 1986: David Turnbull , Willem Kolff
- 1987: Henry Beachell , Gurdev S. Khush , Theodore Maiman
- 1988: Georges Vendryes , Donald Henderson , Isao Arita , Frank Fenner , Luc Montagnier , Robert Charles Gallo
- 1989: Frank Sherwood Rowland , Elias James Corey Jr.
- 1990: Marvin Minsky , W. Jason Morgan , Dan McKenzie , Xavier Le Pichon
- 1991: Jacques-Louis Lions , John Julian Wild
- 1992: Gerhard Ertl , Ernest John Christopher Polge
- 1993: Frank Press , Kary Mullis
- 1994: William Hayward Pickering , Arvid Carlsson
- 1995: Nick Holonyak , Edward F. Knipling
- 1996: Charles Kuen Kao , Masao Itō
- 1997: Takashi Sugimura , Bruce Ames , Joseph F. Engelberger , Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
- 1998: Leo Esaki , Jozef Schell , Marc CE Van Montagu
- 1999: W. Wesley Peterson , Jack L. Strominger , Don Craig Wiley
- 2000: Ian L. McHarg , Kimishige Ishizaka
- 2001: John B. Goodenough , Timothy R. Parsons
- 2002: Tim Berners-Lee , Anne McLaren , Andrzej K. Tarkowski
- 2003: Benoît Mandelbrot , James Yorke , Seiji Ogawa
- 2004: Kenichi Honda , Akira Fujishima , Keith J. Sainsbury , John H. Lawton
- 2005: Makoto Nagao , Masatoshi Takeichi , Erkki Ruoslahti
- 2006: John T. Houghton , Akira Endō
- 2007: Albert Fert , Peter Grünberg , Peter Shaw Ashton
- 2008: Vinton G. Cerf , Robert E. Kahn , Victor Almon McKusick
- 2009: Dennis L. Meadows , David E. Kuhl
- 2010: Shun'ichi Iwasaki , Peter Vitousek
- 2011: Dennis Ritchie , Ken Thompson , Tadamitsu Kishimoto , Toshio Hirano
- 2012: Masato Sagawa , Janet D. Rowley , Nicholas B. Lydon , Brian J. Druker
- 2013: C. Grant Willson , Jean MJ Fréchet , John Frederick Grassle
- 2014: Yasuharu Suematsu , C. David Allis
- 2015: Yutaka Takahashi , Theodore Friedmann , Alain Fischer
- 2016: Hideo Hosono , Steven D. Tanksley
- 2017: Adi Shamir , Emmanuelle Charpentier , Jennifer A. Doudna
- 2018: Akira Yoshino , Max Dale Cooper , Jacques Miller
- 2019: Yoshio Okamoto , Rattan Lal
- 2020: Robert G. Gallager , Svante Pääbo
Web links
- Official website (Japanese, English)