Kubo Ryōgo Memorial Prize

The Kubo Ryōgo Memorial Prize ( Japanese 久保 亮 五 記念 賞 , Kubo Ryōgo Kinenshō , English Ryogo Kubo Memorial Prize ) is an award for physics awarded annually by the Inoue Foundation for Science ( 井上 科学 振興 財 団 , Inoue kagaku shinkō zaidan ). It is awarded in honor of and in memory of the Japanese physicist Kubo Ryōgo for outstanding basic research in the fields of statistical physics and solid state physics . The winners must be younger than 45 years old. You will receive a certificate, a commemorative medal and a sum of one million yen. Ryōgo Kubo and his wife Chizuko provided the money.

Award winners

• 1997 Tazaki Haruaki
• 1998 Tarucha Seigo
• 1999 Murakami Yōichi
• 2000 Maeno Yoshiteru for discovering and researching new superconducting oxides
• 2001 Kuniba Atsuo
• 2002 Kawashima Naoki for the development of a new Monte Carlo algorithm as a cluster algorithm
• 2003 Oshikawa Masaki
• 2004 Hotta Takashi
• 2005 Furusawa Akira for his experimental research on quantum entanglement
• 2006 Tatara Gen
• 2007 Kabashima Yoshiyuki for the development of a new method of information processing based on statistical mechanics
• 2008 Takahashi Yoshirō
• 2009 Mizokawa Takashi
• 2010 Hatano Naomichi
• 2011 Nagao Tarō for his random matrix theory and its application in physics
• 2012 Kobayashi Kensuke

Web links

• Official website of the Inoue Foundation for Science (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 久保 亮 五 記念 賞 （Ryogo Kubo Memorial Prize） の 贈 呈 . Inoue Foundation for Science, 2013, accessed April 5, 2013 (Japanese). 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kubo is the family name, Ryōgo the first name.