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Kyoto Prize

HONOR

Awarded since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, for "significant contributions to the progress of science, the development of civilization, and the enrichment and elevation of the human spirit".

1985
Rudolf Emil Kalman, Olivier Messiaen, Claude Shannon  
1986
George Evelyn Hutchinson, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, Isamu Noguchi  
1987
Morris Cohen, Jan Hendrik Oort, Andrzej Wajda  
1988
Noam Chomsky, John McCarthy, Paul Thieme  
1989
John Cage, Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand, Amos E. Joel, Jr.  
1990
Sydney Brenner, Jane Goodall, Renzo Piano  
1991
Peter Brook, Edward Lorenz, Michael Szwarc  
1992
Yasutomi Nishizuka, Karl Popper, Maurice Vincent Wilkes  
1993
William Donald Hamilton, Jack S. Kilby, Witold Lutoslawski  
1994
Akira Kurosawa, Paul C. Lauterbur, André Weil  
1995
George William Gray, Chushiro Hayashi, Roy Lichtenstein  
1996
Mario Capecchi, Donald E. Knuth, Willard Van Orman Quine  
1997
Federico Faggin, Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr., Daniel Hunt Janzen, Stanley Mazor, Masatoshi Shima, Iannis Xenakis  
1998
Kiyoshi Itō, Nam June Paik, Kurt Wüthrich  
1999
Maurice Béjart, W. David Kingery, Walter Heinrich Munk  
2000
Walter Jakob Gehring, Antony Hoare, Paul Ricœur  
2001
Zhores I. Alferov, Izuo Hayashi, György Ligeti, Morton B. Panish, John Maynard Smith  
2002
Tadao Ando, Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov, Leroy Hood  
2003
Eugene Parker, George M. Whitesides, Tamao Yoshida  
2004
Jürgen Habermas, Alan Kay, Alfred G. Knudson  
2005
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George H. Heilmeier, Simon Asher Levin  
2006
Hirotugu Akaike, Leonard Herzenberg, Issey Miyake  
2007
Pina Bausch, Hiroo Inokuchi, Hiroo Kanamori  



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