On March 19, 2021, the Inamori Foundation announced the two 2021 fellows for the Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship Program, Hiroshi Nishimasu (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo) and Yoshifumi Yamaguchi (Professor, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University) were selected from 66 applicants. InaRIS Fellowship Program...
On March 15, 2021, Dr. László Lovász, the 2010 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, was awarded the Arbel Prize which recognizes mathematicians with extraordinary achievements. Congratulations on this great honor!
The Inamori Foundation announced the 2021 Inamori Grants 50 recipients on March 12. Out of 441 applicants (natural sciences:361; humanities and social sciences: 80), 40 from the field of natural sciences and 10 from the field of humanities and social sciences were chosen through the rigorous selection. Each single recipient is awarded one million yen.
On March 5, 2021, Dr. Martha Craven Nussbaum, the 2016 Kyoto Prize laureate in Arts and Philosophy, selected as the recipient of the Holberg Prize which honors scholars who have made outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. Many congratulations on this prestigious recognition!
Dr. Isamu Akasaki, 2009 Kyoto Prize laureate in Advanced Technology, was awarded the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering on February 2. The Prize recognizes researchers who have brought benefits to the world through groundbreaking technological innovations. Congratulations for the great honor! Dr. Akasaki’s persistent research on gallium nitride (GaN) and its application to light-emitting...
The Kyoto University－Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Prize Symposium (KUIP) aims to widely share the latest trends and attractions of cutting-edge research with society. Hosted by Kyoto University and co-hosted by the Inamori Foundation, KUIP has been held in Kyoto since 2014 and in Tokyo since 2018. This year, KUIP will be held for the first...
Savoring the Words from Kyoto Prize Laureates” is a series featuring the words of Kyoto Prize laureates. This is the second installment in the series. The words featured in this piece can be also enjoyed by touching the large displays at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art in Kyoto . We hope you will...
November 11──Commemorative Lectures by the Kyoto Prize laureates were to be held on this day. However, this year’s events have been postponed due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection. So instead, we have collected some of the words of the past laureates for your enjoyment. You can read the scripts of all the...
Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship Program is a research grant program that allows researchers to pursue challenging projects over a 10-year period. The Advisory Board Meeting of InaRIS Fellowship Program was held on October 26 at the Inamori Foundation in Kyoto to have a discussion over the fellows’ research themes. InaRIS Fellowship Program...
“Plants provide us with the splendid colours that they possess for nothing in return” —Fukumi Shimura, 2014 Kyoto Prize laureates in Arts and Philosophy The exhibition “Shimura Fukumi: Her Vocation to Weave Life” is running at Himeji City Museum of Art in Hyogo prefecture until August 30, 2020. This exhibition explores some 60 years of...
New exhibition featuring Dr. Masatoshi Nei, the 2013 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences opened at the University of Miyazaki. Dr. Nei, an evolutionary biologist, proposed what is now called “Nei’s Genetic Distance,” which quantifies differences in the vestiges of evolution that remain within proteins and DNA in his 1972 paper. This innovative idea has...
The Inamori Foundation started to accept applications for the 2021 Inamori Research Grants and Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship on May 21. The Inamori Research Grants Program was established in 1985 to foster diverse and creative research activities by providing opportunities to challenge many potential themes. This program has little scrutiny on how...