Nishina Prize
The Nishina Prize ( Japanese 仁科 記念 賞 , Nishina Kinenshō ) is an annual award for physics awarded by the Nishina Foundation. The award is given to individuals or research groups for extraordinary achievements in atomic physics and its application. Atomic physics is understood to mean the entire spectrum of modern physics. He is also reminiscent of the father of modern Japanese physics, Yoshio Nishina . The laureates will receive a medal, certificate, and prize money of 500,000 yen.
Award winners
- 2019 Shigeru Yoshida - Aya Ishihara
- 2018 Masaru Shibata - Koichiro Tanaka
- 2017 Hiroki Takesue - Chihaya Adachi - Mahito Kohmoto
- 2016 Tadashi Takayanagi
- 2015 Shinsei Ryū , Akira Furusaki - Tohru Motobayashi , Hiroyoshi Sakurai
- 2014 Matsuda Yūji - Kobayashi Takashi , Nakaya Tsuyoshi
- 2013 Hidetoshi Katori - Yoshiro Takahashi - Takahiko Kondo , Tomio Kobayashi , Shoji Asai
- 2012 Inoue Kunio - Hosono Hideo - Hatsuda Tetsuo , Aoki Shin'ya , Ishii Noriyoshi
- 2011 Akiba Yasuyuki - Fujisawa Akihide , Ida Katsumi
- 2010 Kaneko Kunihiko - Maeno Yoshiteru
- 2009 Ōguri Hiroshi - Tamura Hirokazu
- 2008 Ie Masanori - Ueda Masahito - Hayano Ryūko
- 2007 Hosotani Yutaka
- 2006 Tajima Toshiki - Nishimori Hidetoshi - Mishima Osamu
- 2005 Nagaosa Naoto - Nishikawa Kōichirō - Morita Kosuke
- 2004 Tsai Jaw-Shen - Niwa Kimio
- 2003 Kitaoka Yoshio - Suzuki Atsuto - Nakano Takashi
- 2002 Koyama Katsuji - Tarucha Seigo - Nagai Yasuki , Igashira Masayuki
- 2001 Suzuki Yōichirō , Nakahata Masayuki - Takasaki Fumihiko , Oide Katsunobu - Amaya Kiichi , Shimizu Katsuya
- 2000 Orito Shūji , Yamamoto Akihiro - Konishi Ken'ichi - Horiuchi Hisashi
- 1999 Inoue Kenzo , Kakuto Akira - Kajita Takaaki - Nakamura Yasunobu
- 1998 Akimitsu Jun - Shimizu Fujio - Kondō Kunitaka
- 1997 Kifune Tadashi , Tanimori Toru - Anthony Ichirō Sanda - Yasuoka Hiroshi
- 1996 Nakamura Shūji - Itaya Kinko - Nakai Naomasa , Inoue Makoto , Miyoshi Makoto
- 1995 Satō Takeo - Kawakami Norio , Yan Sonkiru
- 1994 Kawabata Arisato - Tanabe Tetsumi - Iwasaki Yōichi , Ukawa Akira , Ōkawa Masanori , Fukugita Masataka
- 1993 Itō Kimitaka , Itō Sanae - Katsumata Kōichi
- 1992 Yamamoto Yoshihisa - Ōnuki Yoshichika , Hasegawa Akira - Yanagida Tsutomu
- 1991 Kitamura Hideo - Saitō Shūji - Wadachi Miki
- 1990 Satō Katsuhiko - Tokura Yoshinori - Yokoya Kaoru
- 1989 Tanihata Isao - Nomoto Ken'ichi
- 1988 Matsumoto Toshio - Kikkawa Keiji - Saitō Gunji
- 1987 Takayanagi Kunio - Morimoto Masaki , Kaifu Norio - Koshiba Masatoshi , Totsuka Yōji , Suda Hidehiro
- 1986 Suzuki Masuo - Fujikawa Kazuo - Satō Testuya
- 1985 Tanaka Toyoichi - Iijima Sumio - Tanaka Yasuo
- 1984 Eguchi Tōru , Kawai Hikaru - Ishikawa Yoshikazu - Kawaji Shinji
- 1983 Yamanouchi Taiji - Masuda Akimasa
- 1982 Ando Tsuneya - Tonomura Akira
- 1981 Sugimoto Daiichirō - Yoshimura Motohiko
- 1980 Date Muneyuki - Torizuka Yoshiharu - Kugo Taichirō , Ojima Izumi
- 1979 Moriya Toru - Makoto Kobayashi , Masukawa Toshihide
- 1978 Hirota Eiji - Arima Akito , Marumori Toshio
- 1977 Shionoya Shigeo - Maki Jirō , Hara Yasuo
- 1976 Isoya Akira - Ōkubo Susumu , Iizuka Jugoro
- 1975 Yamazaki Toshimitsu - Hanamura Eiichi
- 1974 Ōtsuka Eizo - Sakita Bunji
- 1973 Nakanishi Noboru - Satō Fumitaka , Tomimatsu Akira
- 1972 Kawasaki Kyōji - Maki Kasumi
- 1971 Sugawara Hirotaka - Morinaga Haruhiko
- 1970 Kigoshi Kunihiko - Nishikawa Tetsuji
- 1969 Matsuda Hisashi - Ikeji Hiroyuki , Nishikawa Kyōji
- 1968 Mori Hajime - Kondō Jun
- 1967 Ogawa Shūzō , Yamaguchi Yoshio - Nishimura Jun
- 1966 Oda Minoru - Toyozawa Yutaka
- 1965 Mitani Kenji , Tanaka Shigetoshi - Miyake Saburō
- 1964 Iwata Giichi - Seya Masao
- 1963 Hayashi Chushiro
- 1962 Takayama Kazuo - Sasaki Wataru
- 1961 Niu Kiyoshi - Fukui Shūji , Miyamoto Shigenori - Matsubara Takeo
- 1960 Yoshimori Akio
- 1959 Leo Esaki - Nakane Ryōhei
- 1958 Sugimoto Kenzō - Sawada Katuro
- 1957 Kubo Ryōgo
- 1956 Kei Yoshida - Mitsui Shingo , Nishigaki Susumu , Egawa Tomoji , Ushioda Tsunezo
- 1955 Ogata Koreichi - Nishijima Kazuhiko
Web links
- List of award winners, in English and Japanese, on the Nishina Memorial Foundation website (nishina-mf.or.jp)
- ↑ Shigeru Yoshida and Aya Ishihara receive the 2019 Nishina Memorial Prize. In: icecube.wisc.edu. September 23, 2017, accessed November 12, 2019 .