List Of Kyoto Prize Winners

This is a list of Kyoto Prize winners, awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation.^[1]^[2]

Basic sciences

Year	Laureate		Country
1985		Claude Elwood Shannon	United States	1916–2001	Mathematical sciences
1986		George Evelyn Hutchinson	United States	1903–1991	Biological sciences
1987		Jan Hendrik Oort	Netherlands	1900–1992	Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
1988		Avram Noam Chomsky	United States	born 1928	Cognitive science
1989		Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand	Soviet Union	1913–2009	Mathematical sciences
1990		Jane Goodall	United Kingdom	born 1934	Biological sciences
1991		Edward Norton Lorenz	United States	1917–2008	Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
1992		Yasutomi Nishizuka	Japan	1932–2004	Life sciences
1993		William Donald Hamilton	United Kingdom	1936–2000	Biological sciences
1994		André Weil	France	1906–1998	Mathematical sciences
1995		Chūshirō Hayashi	Japan	1920–2010	Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
1996		Mario Renato Capecchi	United States	born 1937	Life sciences
1997		Daniel Hunt Janzen	United States	born 1939	Biological sciences
1998		Kiyoshi Itô	Japan	1915–2008	Mathematical sciences
1999		Walter Heinrich Munk	United States	1917–2019	Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
2000		Walter Jakob Gehring	Switzerland	1939–2014	Life sciences
2001		John Maynard Smith	United Kingdom	1920–2004	Biological sciences
2002		Mikhail Gromov	France	born 1943	Mathematical sciences
2003		Eugene Newman Parker	United States	1927-2022	Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
2004		Alfred G. Knudson	United States	1922–2016	Life sciences
2005		Simon Asher Levin	United States	born 1941	Biological sciences
2006		Hirotsugu Akaike	Japan	1927–2009	Mathematical sciences
2007		Hiroo Kanamori	Japan	born 1936	Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
2008		Anthony James Pawson	Canada / United Kingdom	1952–2013	Life sciences
2009		Barbara Rosemary Grant	United Kingdom	born 1936	Biological sciences
2009		Peter Raymond Grant	United Kingdom	born 1936	Biological sciences
2010		László Lovász	Hungary	born 1948	Mathematical sciences
2011		Rashid Alievich Sunyaev	Russia / Germany	born 1943	Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
2012		Yoshinori Ohsumi	Japan	born 1945	Life sciences
2013		Masatoshi Nei	United States	born 1931	Biological sciences
2014		Edward Witten	United States	born 1951	Mathematical sciences
2015		Michel Mayor	Switzerland	born 1942	Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
2016		Tasuku Honjo	Japan	born 1942	Life sciences
2017		Graham Farquhar	Australia	born 1947	Biological sciences
2018		Masaki Kashiwara	Japan	born 1947	Mathematical sciences
2019		James Gunn	United States	born 1938	Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics
2020	No award because of COVID-19 pandemic
2021		Robert G. Roeder	United States	born 1942	Life sciences

Advanced technology

Source: Kyoto Prize

Year	Laureate		Country
1985		Rudolf Emil Kálmán	Hungary / United States	1930–2016	Electronics
1986		Nicole Marthe Le Douarin	France	born 1930	Biotechnology and medical technology
1987		Morris Cohen	United States	1911–2005	Materials science and engineering
1988		John McCarthy	United States	1927–2011	Information science
1989		Amos E. Joel, Jr.	United States	1918–2008	Electronics
1990		Sydney Brenner	United Kingdom	1927–2019	Biotechnology and medical technology
1991		Michael Szwarc	United States	1909–2000	Materials science and engineering
1992		Maurice Vincent Wilkes	United Kingdom	1913–2010	Information science
1993		Jack St. Clair Kilby	United States	1923–2005	Electronics
1994		Paul Christian Lauterbur	United States	1929–2007	Biotechnology and medical technology
1995		George William Gray	United Kingdom	1926–2013	Materials science and engineering
1996		Donald Ervin Knuth	United States	born 1938	Information science
1997		Stanley Mazor	United States	born 1941	Electronics
		Marcian Edward Hoff Jr.	United States	born 1937
		Federico Faggin	Italy	born 1941
		Masatoshi Shima	Japan	born 1943
1998		Kurt Wüthrich	Switzerland	born 1938	Biotechnology and medical technology
1999		W. David Kingery	United States	1926–2000	Materials science and engineering
2000		Sir Antony Hoare	United Kingdom	born 1934	Information science
2001		Morton B. Panish	United States	born 1929	Electronics
		Izuo Hayashi	Japan	1922–2005
		Zhores Ivanovich Alferov	Russia	1930–2019
2002		Leroy Edward Hood	United States	born 1938	Biotechnology and medical technology
2003		George McClelland Whitesides	United States	born 1939	Materials science and engineering
2004		Alan Curtis Kay	United States	born 1940	Information science
2005		George H. Heilmeier	United States	1936–2014	Electronics
2006		Leonard Herzenberg	United States	1931–2013	Biotechnology and medical technology
2007		Hiroo Inokuchi	Japan	1927–2014	Materials science and engineering
2008		Richard M. Karp	United States	born 1935	Information science
2009		Isamu Akasaki	Japan	1929–2021	Electronics
2010		Shinya Yamanaka	Japan	born 1962	Biotechnology and medical technology
2011		John Werner Cahn	United States	1928–2016	Materials science and engineering
2012		Ivan Edward Sutherland	United States	born 1938	Information science
2013		Robert H. Dennard	United States	born 1932	Electronics
2014		Robert S. Langer	United States	born 1948	Biotechnology and medical technology
2015		Toyoki Kunitake	Japan	born 1936	Materials science and engineering
2016		Takeo Kanade	Japan	born 1945	Information science
2017		Takashi Mimura	Japan	born 1944	Electronics
2018		Karl Deisseroth	United States	born 1971	Biotechnology and medical technology
2019		Ching Wan Tang	Hong Kong	born 1947	Materials Science and Engineering
2020	No award because of COVID-19 pandemic
2021		Andrew Chi-Chih Yao	China / United States	born 1946	Information science

Arts and philosophy

Source: Kyoto Prize

Year	Laureate		Country
1985		Olivier Messiaen	France	1908–1992	Music
1986		Isamu Noguchi	United States	1904–1988	Arts
1987		Andrzej Wajda	Poland	1926–2016	Theater, cinema
1988		Paul Thieme	West Germany	1905–2001	Thought and Ethics
1989		John Cage	United States	1912–1992	Music
1990		Renzo Piano	Italy	born 1937	Arts
1991		Peter Stephen Paul Brook	United Kingdom	1925–2022	Theater, cinema
1992		Karl Raimund Popper	United Kingdom	1902–1994	Thought and Ethics
1993		Witold Lutosławski	Poland	1913–1994	Music
1994		Akira Kurosawa	Japan	1910–1998	Theater, cinema
1995		Roy Lichtenstein	United States	1923–1997	Arts
1996		Willard Van Orman Quine	United States	1908–2000	Thought and ethics
1997		Iannis Xenakis	France	1922–2001	Music
1998		Nam June Paik	United States	1932–2006	Arts
1999		Maurice Béjart	France	1927–2007	Theater, cinema
2000		Paul Ricœur	France	1913–2005	Thought and Ethics
2001		György Ligeti	Austria / Hungary	1923–2006	Music
2002		Tadao Ando	Japan	born 1941	Arts
2003		Tamao Yoshida	Japan	1919–2006	Theater, cinema
2004		Jürgen Habermas	Germany	born 1929	Thought and Ethics
2005		Nikolaus Harnoncourt	Austria	1929–2016	Music
2006		Issey Miyake	Japan	born 1938	Arts
2007		Pina Bausch	Germany	1940–2009	Theater, cinema
2008		Charles Margrave Taylor	Canada	born 1931	Thought and Ethics
2009		Pierre Boulez	France	1925–2016	Music
2010		William Kentridge	South Africa	born 1955	Arts
2011		Tamasaburo Bando V	Japan	born 1950	Theater, cinema
2012		Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	India	born 1942	Thought and Ethics
2013		Cecil Taylor	United States	1929–2018	Music
2014		Fukumi Shimura	Japan	born 1924	Arts
2015		John Neumeier	United States	born 1942	Theater, cinema
2016		Martha Craven Nussbaum	United States	born 1947	Thought and Ethics
2017		Richard Taruskin	United States	1945–2022	Music history
2018		Joan Jonas	United States	born 1936	Arts
2019		Ariane Mnouchkine	France	born 1939	Arts and Philosophy
2020	No award because of COVID-19 pandemic
2021		Bruno Latour	France	born 1947	Thought and Ethics