Kyoto Prize

Kyoto Prize 2015: Winners

Recipients

  1. Advanced Technology

    Toyoki Kunitake

    CS

    Pioneering Contributions to the Materials Sciences by Discovering Synthetic Bilayer Membranes and Creating the Field of Chemistry Based on Molecular Self-Assembly.

  2. Basic Sciences

    Michel Mayor

    Physics

    Outstanding Contributions in Evolving a New Vision of the Universe through the Discovery of Extrasolar Planet