Kyoto Prize Room will open inside the newly renovated Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art! We would like to invite you to visit this Kyoto Prize Room and learn about the life and thoughts of the Kyoto Prize Laureates. *After an extended delay due to coronavirus concerns, the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art is...
The 2019 Kyoto Prize Week ended with the laureate lectures in Kagoshima prefecture. The lectures took place on November 16 attended by 1200 which includes many high school students. Inamori Foundation invites the students in Kagoshima’s remote islands every year in order to give them, who will bear the next generation, the opportunities to enjoy...
On November 11, some 1000 people gathered in the Kyoto International Conference Center to attend the commemorative lectures given by the three Kyoto Prize laureates of this year. Dr. Tang delivered an insightful lecture on his discovery and evolution of the OLED; Dr. Gunn talked on his amazing accomplishments and future of Sloan Digital Sky...
Today on November 10, the 2019 Kyoto Prize Presentation Ceremony was held at the Kyoto International Conference Center, attended by 1150 guests from Japan and abroad. Here’s the highlights video from the beautiful presentation ceremony!
On November 9, 2019 Kyoto Prize laureates visited the Inamori Foundation to greet the President of the Foundation. The laureates and their families enjoyed talking while seeing the photos of former laureates and the past presentation ceremony. Here, the messages from the laureates to the Inamori Foundation! “I thank the Inamori Foundation for the high...
The Inamori Foundation (President: Shinobu Inamori-Kanazawa) is pleased to announce the 2019 Kyoto Prize Week Media Guidelines. We would appreciate it if you could make your schedule to conduct newsgathering during the Kyoto Prize Week. We would be obliged if these guidelines could be helpful for your newsgathering activities. Thank you very much for your...
Dr. Michel Mayor, the 2015 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences was announced as a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Extrasolar Planet on October 8, 2019. Congratulations! None of the existence of exoplanets orbiting Sun-like star has been discovered over 50 years, before Dr. Mayor found out the exoplanet...
The Inamori Foundation (President: Shinobu Inamori-Knazawa) is pleased to announce the event schedule of the 2019 Kyoto Prize, including the Prize Presentation Ceremony on November 10 and opportunities for the media interviewing with the laureates. Your attention would be highly appreciated.
The Inamori Foundation (President: Kazuo Inamori) is pleased to announce the laureates of the 2019 Kyoto Prize.
Kyoto Prize comprises the 3 categories: Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, and Arts and Philosophy.
