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Japanese Nobel laureates
Year conferred | Field | Name | Alma mater | Position when the prize was conferred |
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2019 | Chemistry | Akira Yoshino | Kyoto University | Honorary Fellow, Asahi Kasei Corporation Professor, Meijo University |
2018 | Physiology or Medicine | Tasuku Honjo | Kyoto University | Distinguished professor and deputy director-general at the Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS), Kyoto University |
2016 | Physiology or Medicine | Yoshinori Ohsumi | The University of Tokyo | Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
2015 | Physics | Takaaki Kajita | Saitama University | Professor, the University of Tokyo |
Physiology or Medicine | Satoshi Omura | University of Yamanashi | Professor Emeritus, Kitasato University | |
2014 | Physics | Isamu Akasaki | Kyoto University | Professor, Meijo University |
Hiroshi Amano | Nagoya University | Professor, Nagoya University | ||
Shuji Nakamura | The University of Tokushima | Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
2012 | Physiology or Medicine | Shinya Yamanaka | Kobe University | Professor, Kyoto University |
2010 | Chemistry | Eiichi Negishi | The University of Tokyo | Distinguished Professor, Purdue University |
Akira Suzuki | Hokkaido University | Emeritus Professor, Hokkaido University | ||
2008 | Physics | Yoichiro Nambu | The University of Tokyo | Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago |
Makoto Kobayashi | Nagoya University | Emeritus Professor, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization | ||
Maskawa Toshihide | Nagoya University | Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University | ||
Chemistry | Osamu Shimomura | Nagasaki University | Emeritus Professor, Boston University | |
2002 | Chemistry | Kouichi Tanaka | Tohoku University | Shimadzu Corporation |
Physics | Masatoshi Koshiba | The University of Tokyo | Emeritus Professor, the University of Tokyo | |
2001 | Chemistry | Ryoji Noyori | Kyoto University | Professor, Nagoya University |
2000 | Chemistry | Hideki Shirakawa | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Emeritus Professor, University of Tsukuba |
1994 | Literature | Kenzaburo Oe | The University of Tokyo | Novelist |
1987 | Physiology or Medicine | Susumu Tonegawa | Kyoto University | Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
1981 | Chemistry | Kenichi Fukui | Kyoto University | Professor, Kyoto University |
1974 | Peace | Eisaku Sato | The University of Tokyo | Former Prime Minister |
1973 | Physics | Reona Ezaki | The 3rd Higher School / The University of Tokyo | Senior Researcher, IBM Watson Research Center |
1968 | Literature | Yasunari Kawabata | The University of Tokyo | Novelist |
1965 | Physics | Sin‐itiro Tomonaga | Kyoto University | Professor, Tokyo University of Education |
1949 | Physics | Hideki Yukawa | Kyoto University | Professor, Kyoto University |