Video footage of the press conference that announced the 2021 Kyoto Prize laureates at the Hotel Nikko Princess Kyoto is now available.
This year's Kyoto Prize features the following fields for each category: Information Science for Advanced Technology, Life Sciences (Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology) for Basic Sciences, and Thought and Ethics for Arts and Philosophy.
On May 20, 2021, Dr. Jane Goodall, a primatologist and the 1990 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, was awarded the 2021 Templeton Prize!
Interivew with Dr. Takashi Mimura, the 2017 Kyoto Prize laureate in the Advanced Technology category, titled “Being of Service” Means to Be Needed and Appreciated by the Overwhelming Majority
The Inamori Foundation started to accept applications for the 2022 Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship on May 21, 2021.
The Inamori Foundation is pleased to announce the 2021 Kyoto Prize laureates on June 18, 2021 after a one-year postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2020, which was postponed last Spring due to the spread of a new coronavirus infection, will be held online as the Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2021 and distributed from the University of Oxford.
In the first installment of the series “Unearthing the Words of Kyoto Prize Laureates,” we had the pleasure of interviewing , the 2015 Kyoto Prize laureate in the Advanced Technology category.
While considering new role and sustainability of the research station, Dr. Daisuke Akaishi, a program-specific assistant professor, realized that research carried out there needed to include not only the natural environment but also the livelihood of people in the whole surrounding basin formed by the rivers that originate in the forest.
Dr. Isamu Akasaki, who contributed to the realization of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), passed away on April 1, 2021 at the age of 92.
We interviewed Dr. Hiroshi Nishiura, who uses mathematics to fight against the invisible enemy of infectious diseases that affect all human beings, and asked about the forefront of COVID-19 countermeasures and the goals of his research.
A research team led by Professor Rie Umetsu at Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University has succeeded in the world’ s first direct observation of the electronic state of “half-metal,” which is expected to become next-generation materials for the realization of revolutionary devices.