Kyoto Prize: Winners by Year
Created by the Inamori Foundation in 1984 and first awarded in 1985 in three categories: advanced technology, basic sciences, and arts and philosophy. Three prizes are presented each November in Kyoto, Japan. Carries a prize of roughly $650,000 per category.
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Award years
Recent winners
The last 30 award years. See every Kyoto Prize winner in one list, or use the Categories above.
2026
- Tsutomu Miyasaka Advanced Technology
- Farooq Azam Basic Sciences
2025
- Shun-ichi Amari Advanced Technology
- Azim Surani Basic Sciences
2024
- John Pendry Advanced Technology
- Paul F. Hoffman Basic Sciences
2023
- Ryuzo Yanagimachi Advanced Technology
- Elliott H. Lieb Basic Sciences
2022
- Carver Mead Advanced Technology
- Bryan Grenfell Basic Sciences
2021
- Andrew Yao Advanced Technology
- Robert G. Roeder Basic Sciences
2019
- Ching W. Tang Advanced Technology
- James E. Gunn Basic Sciences
2018
- Karl Deisseroth Advanced Technology
- Masaki Kashiwara Basic Sciences
2017
- Takashi Mimura Advanced Technology
- Graham Farquhar Basic Sciences
2016
- Takeo Kanade Advanced Technology
- Tasuku Honjo Basic Sciences
2015
- Toyoki Kunitake Advanced Technology
- Michel Mayor Basic Sciences
2014
- Robert Samuel Langer Advanced Technology
- Edward Witten Basic Sciences
2013
- Robert Heath Dennard Advanced Technology
- Masatoshi Nei Basic Sciences
2012
- Ivan Sutherland Advanced Technology
- Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Sciences
2011
- John Werner Cahn Advanced Technology
- Rashid Sunyaev Basic Sciences
2010
- Shinya Yamanaka Advanced Technology
- László Lovász Basic Sciences
2009
- Isamu Akasaki Advanced Technology
- Barbara Rosemary Grant Basic Sciences
- Peter Raymond Grant Basic Sciences
2008
- Richard M. Karp Advanced Technology
- Tony Pawson Basic Sciences
2007
- Hiroo Inokuchi Advanced Technology
- Hiroo Kanamori Basic Sciences
2006
- Leonard Arthur Herzenberg Advanced Technology
- Hirotsugu Akaike Basic Sciences
2005
- George H. Heilmeier Advanced Technology
- Simon Asher Levin Basic Sciences
2004
- Alan Kay Advanced Technology
- Alfred G. Knudson Basic Sciences
2003
- George McClelland Whitesides Advanced Technology
- Eugene Parker Basic Sciences
2002
- Leroy Hood Advanced Technology
- Mikhail Gromov Basic Sciences
2001
- Izuo Hayashi Advanced Technology
- Morton B. Panish Advanced Technology
- Zhores I. Alferov Advanced Technology
- John Maynard Smith Basic Sciences
2000
- Tony Hoare Advanced Technology
- Walter Jakob Gehring Basic Sciences
1999
- W. David Kingery Advanced Technology
- Walter Munk Basic Sciences
1998
- Kurt Wüthrich Advanced Technology
- Kiyoshi Itō Basic Sciences
1997
- Federico Faggin Advanced Technology
- Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr. Advanced Technology
- Masatoshi Shima Advanced Technology
- Stanley Mazor Advanced Technology
- Daniel H. Janzen Basic Sciences
1996
- Donald Knuth Advanced Technology
- Mario R. Capecchi Basic Sciences