Nobel Laureates

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Laureates from Japan

Year of award Category Name Alma mater Title at the time of award
2025 Chemistry Susumu Kitagawa Kyoto University Executive Vice-President for Research Promotion, Kyoto University

Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS)
Physiology or Medicine Shimon Sakaguchi  Kyoto University Specially Appointed Professor, Immunology Frontier Research Center, the University of Osaka

Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
2024 Peace Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations)    
2021 Physics Syukuro (Suki) Manabe The University of Tokyo Senior Meteorologist, Princeton University
(US citizen)
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, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS)
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 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 Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University
2008 Physics Yoichiro Nambu The University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
(US citizen)
Makoto Kobayashi Nagoya University Professor Emeritus, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
Maskawa Toshihide Nagoya University Professor, Kyoto Sangyo University
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Chemistry Osamu Shimomura Nagasaki University Professor Emeritus, Boston University
2002 Chemistry Koichi Tanaka Tohoku University Shimadzu Corporation
Physics Masatoshi Koshiba The University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo
2001 Chemistry Ryoji Noyori Kyoto University Professor, Nagoya University
2000 Chemistry Hideki Shirakawa Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus, 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