List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Kyoto University

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As of October 2019, 19 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Kyoto University. The building pictured is the university's Clock Tower.

This list of Nobel laureates affiliated with Kyoto University comprehensively shows the alumni, faculty members as well as researchers of Kyoto University who were awarded the Nobel Prize or the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes, established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, are awarded to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.[1] An associated prize, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics), was instituted by Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.[2]

As of October 2019, 19 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Kyoto University, 11 of them are officially listed as "Kyoto's Nobel Laureates" by the university.[3][4] Among the 19 laureates, 9 are Kyoto alumni (graduates and attendees), and 5 have been long-term academic members of the university faculty. Subject-wise, 8 laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than any other subject.

Inclusion criteria[]

Kyoto University

The university affiliations in this list are all official academic affiliations such as degree programs and official academic employment. Non-academic affiliations such as advisory committee and administrative staff are generally excluded. The official academic affiliations fall into three categories: 1) Alumni (graduates and attendees), 2) Long-term Academic Staff, and 3) Short-term Academic Staff. Graduates are defined as those who hold Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate, or equivalent degrees from the Kyoto University, while attendees are those who formally enrolled in a degree program at Kyoto but did not complete the program; thus, honorary degrees, posthumous degrees, summer attendees, exchange students, and auditing students are excluded. The category of "Long-term Academic Staff" consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of "Short-term Academic Staff" consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers (postdocs), visiting professors/scholars (visitors), and equivalent academic positions. At Kyoto, the specific academic title solely determines the type of affiliation, regardless of the actual time the position was held by a laureate.

Further explanations on "visitors" under "Short-term Academic Staff" are presented as follows. 1) All informal or personal visits are excluded from the list; 2) all employment-based visiting positions, which carry teaching/research duties, are included as affiliations in the list; 3) as for award/honor-based visiting positions, to minimize controversy this list takes a conservative view and includes the positions as affiliations only if the laureates were required to assume employment-level duty (teaching/research) or the laureates specifically classified the visiting positions as "affiliation" or similar in reliable sources such as their curriculum vita. In particular, attending meetings and giving public lectures, talks or non-curricular seminars at Kyoto University is not a form of employment-level duty. Finally, summer visitors are generally excluded from the list unless summer work yielded significant end products such as research publications and components of Nobel-winning work, since summer terms are not part of formal academic years.

Some laureates not qualified as official academic affiliates
Name Nobel Prize Year Description
Leo Esaki Physics 1973 Graduate of the Third High School during World War II, which was not a formal university itself and was integrated into Kyoto University in 1949.[5][6][7]

Summary[]

See also: List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation

In the following list, the number following a person's name is the year they received the prize; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while they were working at Kyoto University (including emeritus staff). A name underlined implies that this person has already been listed in a previous category (i.e., multiple affiliations).

Alumni Long-term academic staff Short-term academic staff
Physics (8)
  1. Isamu Akasaki - 2014
  2. Sin-Itiro Tomonaga - 1965
  3. Hideki Yukawa - 1949
  1. Toshihide Maskawa - 2008*
  2. Hideki Yukawa - 1949*
  1. Makoto Kobayashi - 2008
  2. Theodor Hänsch - 2005
  3. Anthony Leggett - 2003
  4. Willis Lamb - 1955
Chemistry (5)
  1. Akira Yoshino - 2019
  2. Ryoji Noyori - 2001
  3. Kenichi Fukui- 1981
  1. Kenichi Fukui - 1981*
  1. Aaron Ciechanover - 2004
  2. Ryoji Noyori - 2001
  3. Alan MacDiarmid - 2000
Physiology or Medicine (4)
  1. Tasuku Honjo - 2018
  2. Yoshinori Ohsumi - 2016
  3. Susumu Tonegawa 1987
  1. Tasuku Honjo - 2018*
  2. Shinya Yamanaka - 2012*
Economics (1)
  1. Oliver Williamson - 2009
Peace (1)
  1. Aung Suu Kyi - 1991

Nobel laureates by category[]

Nobel laureates in Physics[]

Year Image Laureate Relation Rationale
1949 Yukawa.jpg Hideki Yukawa Alumnus
Faculty[8] 		"for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces".[9]
1955 Willis Lamb 1955.jpg Willis Lamb Visiting Fellow (1960)[10] "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum" – shared with Polykarp Kusch.[11]
1965 Tomonaga.jpg Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Alumnus[12] "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" – shared with Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman.[13]
2003 Nobel Laureate Sir Anthony James Leggett in 2007.jpg Anthony James Leggett Group member of Prof. Takeo Matsubara (1965-66)[14] "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"" – shared with Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov and Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg.[15]
2005 Theodor Haensch.jpg Theodor W. Hänsch Visiting Professor (1979)[16] "for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique" – shared with Roy J. Glauber and John L. Hall.[17]
2008 Makoto Kobayashi-press conference Dec 07th, 2008-2b.jpg Makoto Kobayashi Research Associate (1972-1979)[18] "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature" – shared with Yoichiro Nambu and Toshihide Maskawa.[19]
Toshihide Masukawa-press conference Dec 07th, 2008-4.jpg Toshihide Maskawa Faculty (1980-2003); honorary professor[20] "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature" – shared with Yoichiro Nambu and Makoto Kobayashi.[19]
2014 Isamu Akasaki 20141211.jpg Isamu Akasaki Alumnus[21] "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources" – shared with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura.[22]

Nobel laureates in Chemistry[]

Year Image Laureate Relation Rationale
1981 Kenichi Fukui.jpg Kenichi Fukui Alumnus; D.Eng
Faculty[23] 		"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions" – shared with Roald Hoffmann.[24]
2000 Alan MacDiarmid 2005.017.004e crop.tif Alan MacDiarmid Visiting Fellow[25] "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers" – shared with Alan J. Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa.[26]
2001 Rioji Noyori.jpg Ryōji Noyori Alumnus; D.Eng[27] "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" – shared with William Knowles and Barry Sharpless.[28]
2004 Nobel2004chemistrylaurets-Ciehanover.jpg Aaron Ciechanover Visiting Fellow (2000)[29] "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" – shared with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose.[30]
2019 Akira Yoshino cropped 2 Akira Yoshino 201910.jpg Akira Yoshino Alumnus; M.Sc.[31] "for the development of lithium-ion batteries" – shared with John B. Goodenough and M. Stanley Whittingham.[32]

Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine[]

Year Image Laureate Relation Rationale
1987 Susumu Tonegawa Photo.jpg Susumu Tonegawa Alumnus[33] "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity."[34]
2012 Shinya yamanaka10.jpg Shinya Yamanaka Faculty[35] "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent" – shared with John B. Gurdon.[36]
2016 Nobel Laureates 1042 (30647248184).jpg Yoshinori Ohsumi Graduate school attended (1970s)[37] "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy".[38]
2018 Tasuku Honjo 201311.jpg Tasuku Honjo Alumnus; PhD
Faculty[39] 		"for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation" – shared with James P. Allison.[40]

Nobel Peace Prize laureates[]

Year Image Laureate Relation Rationale
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi (December 2011).jpg Aung San Suu Kyi Visiting fellow (1985-1986)[41] "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights".[42]

Nobel laureates in Literature[]

None.

Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics[]

Year Image Laureate Relation Rationale
2009 Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-42.jpg Oliver Williamson Visiting Professor (1983)[43] "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm" – shared with Elinor Ostrom.[44]

See also[]

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