Celebrating Outstanding lifetime aChievement
Opening Ceremonies, Scholarship Gala and
Laureate Presentations
March 23 - 25, 2021
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table Of COntents WelCOme letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PhilOsOPhy Of the KyOtO Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
sChedule Of majOr events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
gala sChedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
frOm Our Chairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
university CO-hOsts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
abOut the KyOtO Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
sChOlarshiP reCiPients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
bOard Of direCtOrs and advisOry bOard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
hOst COmmittee and COmmuniCatiOns COmmittee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Planning and OPeratiOns COmmittee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
sChOlarshiP COmmittee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Wednesday, marCh 24 mrs . ariane mnOuChKine - arts & PhilOsOPhy PresentatiOn . . . . . . . . . . . 16
thursday, marCh 25 PrOf . Ching W . tang - advanCed teChnOlOgy PresentatiOn . . . . . . . . . . 20
thursday, marCh 25 PrOf . james e . gunn - basiC sCienCes PresentatiOn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
sPOnsOr list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
sPOnsOr messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
KyOtO Prize reCiPients 1985 - 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
See page 6 for program registration
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March 23, 2021
On behalf of the Kyoto Symposium Organization, welcome to our annual Kyoto Prize Symposium. Once again and now for 20 years, San Diego has the exclusive honor of presenting the Kyoto Prize laureates and their lifetime achievements to a North American audience.
The Kyoto Prize Symposium illuminates the vision of the Inamori Foundation, and the 35th Kyoto Prize laureates – Prof. Ching Tang, Prof. James Gunn and Mrs. Ariane Mnouchkine – are outstanding examples of what human beings can accomplish with new ideas and the desire to make the world a better place. We pay tribute to the Inamori Foundation for recognizing 111 extraordinary individuals over the years who have made tremendous contributions to society through technology, science and the arts.
This benefit gala officially opens the Symposium. Our theme is: The Kyoto Prize: Celebrating Outstanding Lifetime Achievement. Tonight, in addition to celebrating our laureates, we will award major Kyoto Prize Symposium Scholarships to seven college-bound high school seniors from San Diego and Tijuana. We believe these scholarships will inspire our students to fulfill their potential by remembering the mission of the Kyoto Prize, the Inamori Foundation, and its founder Dr. Kazuo Inamori, to work toward the greater good of society.
We are all extremely honored that the Inamori Foundation chose San Diego to be the home of this important event. To the Foundation and to those who have given of their time and resources – our co-host universities, UC San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene University, our sponsors, our community leaders, and all volunteers – we extend our deep gratitude and the gratitude of the community. We especially thank Dr. Kazuo Inamori, without whom there would be no Kyoto Prize. In your program, you will find a reprint of a portion of Dr. Inamori’s original message upon creating the foundation in 1984.
We salute the head of the Inamori Foundation delegation — Ms. Shinobu Inamori-Kanazawa. As President of the Foundation, she has a most vital role in the success of the Kyoto Prize – in Kyoto, San Diego and now also in Oxford. Along with our other Inamori Foundation friends from Kyoto, we again thank all participating in this week’s symposium. Thank you!
To all our guests at the 2021 Kyoto Prize Symposium events, we hope the laureates’ life work and presentations captivate and inspire you!
Sincerely,
Ray McKewon
Chairman, Kyoto Symposium Organization
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I have two major reasons for establishing the Kyoto Prize. First, in keeping with my belief that we on Earth have no higher calling than to serve the greater good of humankind and society, I wish in some way to repay the global community that has sustained and nurtured me all these years. Second, I would like to redress the relative lack of formal recognition for highly dedicated but unsung researchers. At the very least, I hope to honor people who have made extraordinary contributions to science, civilization, and spirituality, and thereby motivate them and others like them to reach still greater heights.
I am convinced that the future of humanity can be assured only through a balance of scientific progress and spiritual depth. Though today’s technology-based civilization is advancing rapidly, there is a deplorable lag in inquiry into our spiritual nature. I believe that the world is composed of mutual dichotomies — pluses and minuses, such as the yin and the yang. Only through the awareness and nourishment of both sides of these dualisms can we achieve a complete and stable equilibrium. The progression or expansion of any one aspect alone without the other will inevitably upset the natural balance of the universe and contribute to human suffering. It is my sincere hope that the Kyoto Prize may serve to encourage the cultivation of both our scientific and spiritual sides. At the same time, nothing would be more gratifying than if it provided some small impetus for the construction of a new philosophical paradigm.
The Philosophy ofthe Kyoto PrizeAn excerpt of the inaugural messagefrom Dr. Kazuo Inamori, 1984
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2021 KyOtO Prize symPOsium
Schedule of Major Events
Opening CeremOnies & sChOlarship gala
6:00 p.m.Opening of site and prelude
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.Virtual and Live Gala
Registration: http://kyotoprize-us.org/annual-gala/
arts and philOsOphy presentatiOn
mrs . ariane mnOuChKine
Wednesday, marCh 24, 20213:30 - 5:00 p.m.Virtual Program
advanCed teChnOlOgy presentatiOn
PrOf . Ching W . tang
thursday, marCh 25, 20212:00 - 3:30 p.m.Virtual Program
BasiC sCienCes presentatiOn
PrOf . james e . gunn
thursday, marCh 25, 20214:00- 5:30 p.m. Virtual Program
Registration: http://kyotoprize-us.org/event-registration/
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The Kyoto Prize Symposium Presents the
KyOtO prize sympOsium gala hOnOring the 35th annual KyOtO prize laureates and
Benefiting the 2020-2022 KyOtO prize sChOlarships
tuesday, marCh 23, 2021(6:00 p.m. Prelude; 6:30 p.m. Program)
WelCOme
Kyoto Symposium Organization Chair, Ray McKewonPresident, The Xceptional Music Company
ChOral perfOrmanCe By KyOtO seiBO elementary sChOOl ChOrus
Opening Ceremonies and Gala Chair, Kazuo Koshi Managing Executive Officer, MUFG Bank, Ltd.
Ms. Shinobu Inamori-Kanazawa, President, Inamori Foundation
Dr. Mary Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor of Public Programs and Dean of Extension, UC San Diego
CeleBratiOn messages
Celebrating Outstanding Lifetime Achievement
prOgram in hOnOr Of the laureates
Prof. Ching W. Tang, Advanced TechnologyProf. James E. Gunn, Basic Sciences
Mrs. Ariane Mnouchkine, Arts and Philosophy
laureate intrOduCtiOns By gala CO-Chairs
Kim Becker, President & CEO, San Diego International AirportDr. Peter Farrell, Founder & Chairman, ResMed, Inc.
pOlOnaise frOm eugene Onegin By KyOtO symphOny OrChestra
2020-2022 sChOlarship reCipients reCOgnitiOn
Ray McKewon, President, The Xceptional Music Company
CLOSING
speCial musiCal triBute perfOrmanCe
“With A Little Help From My Friends”Back To The Garden
Dr. Pradeep K. KhoslaUCSD Chancellor
Dr. Bob BrowerPLNU President
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frOm Our Chairs
the Opening CeremOnies and sChOlarship gala
We are proud to serve as Chairs of the 2021 Kyoto Prize Symposium Opening Ceremonies & Scholarship Gala to recognize the lives and works of those receiving the esteemed Kyoto Prize. This year’s honorees — Prof. Ching W. Tang (Advanced Technology), Prof. James E. Gunn (Basic Sciences) and Mrs. Ariane Mnouchkine (Arts and Philosophy) — have made lifelong contributions toward the betterment of our world. It is our sincere pleasure to be part of an event that honors such extraordinary achievements of the human intellect and spirit. Thank you to the Inamori Foundation for continuing to honor this important work.
This evening we open the 20th annual Kyoto Prize Symposium, a three-day celebration of the lives and works of those receiving the Kyoto Prize. Our university co-hosts at UC San Diego and PLNU have worked hard to make this symposium world-class in all respects. We hope to see you at the laureate lectures March 24-25!
Kyoto Prize laureates have improved and enriched our society in ways that impact human history. Tonight we honor their remarkable achievements and demonstrate that San Diego is a wonderful meeting point for the world’s most brilliant minds.
We will also recognize high school seniors who have shown both talent and accomplishments in the Kyoto Prize fields. These students from the greater San Diego and Tijuana region will receive our 2020 and 2021 Kyoto Prize Symposium Scholarships valued up to $10,000 in the U.S. and 100,000 pesos in Mexico. We are confident that these scholarships
will encourage our students to fulfill their potential by remembering the mission of the Kyoto Prize and its founder, Dr. Kazuo Inamori, and work toward the betterment of humankind.
Again, our sincere gratitude goes to Dr. Inamori and the Inamori Foundation for granting San Diego the honor of being one of only two cities outside of Japan to host the Kyoto Prize laureates. We are also thankful for the sponsors, academic institutions, community leaders and local residents whose contributions have made this week’s events possible. Without their enduring support, our gala, symposium and scholarships would remain just a dream.
San Diego’s ties to the Kyoto Prize through this symposium and scholarship program are a source of pride for our region. Your support shows how we, as human beings, have the power to elevate the human spirit and make our world a better place.
peter C. farrell, ph.d.ResMed, Inc. Founder
Gala Co-Chair
Kazuo Koshi
Executive Chairman, MUFG Bank, Ltd.
Opening Ceremonies and Gala Chair
irWin m. JaCOBs, sC.d.Qualcomm Co-Founder
Kyoto Prize Symposium
Retiring Honorary Chair
Kim BecKer San Diego International
Airport President Gala Co-Chair
ray mCKeWOn The Xceptional Music Company, President
Gala Co-Chair
Welcome to the Gala, The Kyoto Prize: Celebrating Outstanding Lifetime Achievement. We are privileged to chair such an auspicious occasion as we commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Kyoto Prize!
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university CO-hOsts Of the 2021 KyOtO prize sympOsium
university Of CalifOrnia san diegO
At the University of California San Diego, we constantly push boundaries and challenge expectations. Established in 1960, UC San Diego has been shaped by exceptional scholars who aren’t afraid to take risks and redefine conventional wisdom. Today, as one of the top 15 research universities in the world, we are driving innovation and change to advance society, propel economic growth and make our world a better place. Learn more at www.ucsd.edu.
ChanCellOr pradeep K. KhOsla, ph.d., university Of CalifOrnia san diegO
UC San Diego is truly honored to participate in the Kyoto Prize Symposium, along with our partners at Point Loma Nazarene University. We are grateful to Dr. Kazuo Inamori and the Inamori Foundation for forging ties with the San Diego community. We applaud their efforts to promote international understanding by honoring and supporting those who contribute greatly to scientific progress, cultural advancement, and human betterment. As we work to teach and encourage our future leaders and innovators, we draw our own inspiration from Dr. Inamori, the Inamori Foundation, and this year’s Kyoto Prize laureates.
pOint lOma nazarene university
Ranked nationally for academics, service and community engagement, Point Loma Nazarene University prepares students in more than 60 undergraduate programs and 15 graduate areas. PLNU provides a learning environment shaped by academic excellence and rooted in its Christian values and service. The university’s 4,700 students are at campuses in San Diego, the Central Valley, and its regional partnerships with community colleges. The main campus location, overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Point Loma peninsula, offers a welcoming venue for visitors to San Diego. For more information about PLNU, please visit www.pointloma.edu.
president BOB BrOWer, ph.d., pOint lOma nazarene university Point Loma Nazarene University is pleased to host the Kyoto Prize Symposium along with UC San Diego. One of the most prestigious global honors, the Kyoto Prize recognizes renowned scholars, artists, and philosophers for their contributions to humankind. We are inspired and motivated by the great work of the laureates. The Inamori Foundation’s belief in balance between scientific development and spiritual depth also resonates deeply with PLNU. We are honored to pursue a better future for our world in partnership with our fellow host university, the Kyoto Prize laureates, and the Inamori Foundation.
ms. shinOBu inamOri-KanazaWa
President, Inamori FoundationassOCiate viCe ChanCellOr fOr the KyOtO prize
dr. mary WalshOK
Associate Vice Chancellor of Public Programs and Dean of Extension, UC San Diego
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the KyOtO prize
The Kyoto Prize is an international award created by Japan’s non-profit Inamori Foundation to honor those who have contributed significantly to humankind’s scientific, cultural and spiritual development. Consisting of academic honors, a gold medal and a cash gift of 100 million yen (over $900,000), it is Japan’s highest private award for global achievement.
Dr. Kazuo Inamori, who created the Kyoto Prize in 1984, is an international humanitarian and founder of many enterprises — including Kyocera Corporation and KDDI Corporation. Inamori established the Kyoto Prize for two reasons: first, to support his belief that there is no higher calling than to work for the greater good of all humankind; and second, to recognize those dedicated yet unsung people who improve the world through their research, science and art. Through the Kyoto Prize, Dr. Inamori hopes both to recognize the efforts and contributions to society made by these extraordinary people, and to stimulate them and others to still greater heights.
The Kyoto Prize is awarded on November 10 each year in Kyoto, Japan. Since 1985, it has been presented to 111 individuals and one group — a body of laureates ranging from scientists, engineers and researchers to philosophers, painters, sculptors, musicians and film directors.
KyOtO prize sympOsium Opening CeremOnies and sChOlarship gala
The Kyoto Prize Symposium is a three-day celebration of the lives and works of those receiving the prestigious Kyoto Prize. The Symposium provides an opportunity for an international audience to learn about the latest Kyoto Prize laureates while reflecting on the common quest for peace and harmony among nations. The Kyoto Prize Scholarships, administered through The San Diego Foundation and Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad, are awarded to San Diego and Tijuana-area high school students who have been inspired to pursue a college education in one of the three annual Kyoto Prize categories: Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, or Arts and Philosophy. Proceeds from the Symposium’s annual Gala fund the Kyoto Prize Scholarships and related educational opportunities. Other Symposium events include lectures by the latest Kyoto Prize laureates with contributions by other esteemed leaders in the laureates’ fields.
inamOri fOundatiOn
The Inamori Foundation was established in Kyoto, Japan, through the generosity of Dr. Kazuo Inamori, a global entrepreneur and humanitarian. The Foundation takes an active role in promoting international understanding by honoring and supporting those who contribute greatly to scientific progress, cultural advancement, and human betterment. The Foundation’s activities have their spiritual basis in the founder’s lifelong belief that humankind’s future can be assured only when there is a balance between our scientific development and our spiritual depth.
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advanCed teChnOlOgy
anushree Chaudhuri
Westview High SchoolPedrO jesús bernal ayala
CBTIS 237
Catherine Wang
Canyon Crest Academy
BasiC sCienCes
marCO antOniO juárez balderas Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas
arts and philOsOphy
diana alejandra garCía guerrerO Preparatoria CETYS Bachillerato Internacional
sauhaarda ChOWdhuri
Westview High School
2020-2021 KyOtO prize sympOsium SChOlarship reCipients
Since 2004, the Kyoto Symposium Organization’s (KSO) scholarship program for high school seniors in San Diego and Tijuana, combined with grants from the Inamori Foundation in Kyoto to San Diego universities, total $3,500,000. The high school programs are managed in partnership with the San Diego Foundation for San Diego students - and the Fundacion de la Comunidad for Tijuana students. Along with hosting Kyoto Prize Laureates in San Diego every March, the scholarship program is one of KSO’s most important services tied to the Kyoto Prize.
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2021-2022 KyOtO prize sympOsium SChOlarship reCipients
advanCed teChnOlOgy
BasiC sCienCes
arts and philOsOphy
viveK vijayaKumar
San Marcos High School
sOfia manriquez
Otay Ranch High Schooliyasee belén POzOs santiagO Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas
jOrge COOley magallanes
Bachillerato Instituto
México de Baja California
Paulina zaCharKO
Eastlake High Schoolana Cristina zamitiz mendez
Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenasmiguel angel ramOs COrtés
Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas
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KyOtO sympOsium OrganizatiOn BOard Of direCtOrs
RETIRING AS HONORARY CHAIR (2011-2021)irWin m. JaCOBs, sC.d.
CHAIRray mCKeWOn
DIRECTORS
exeCutive direCtOr riChard h. davis
KyOtO sympOsium OrganizatiOn advisOry BOard
CO-CHAIRSpeter farrell, ph.d.hOn. Kate leOnard
mary WalshOK, ph.d.
malin Burnham, fOunder
KimBerly J. BeCKer
david C. dOyle
peter C. farrell, ph.d.
shOiChi himOnO
KazuO KOshi
rOdney n. lanthOrne
Kate leOnard, treasurer
magda marquet, ph.d.
henry l. nOrdhOff
dennis OtsuJi
paul rOBinsOn
mary WalshOK, ph.d.
riCK Bregman
BOB BrOWer, ph.d.
marK Cafferty
mariO garCia CarrasCO
Cristina della COletta, ph.d
hOn. greg COx
melanie Cruz
yumi higashi
yuKO Kaifu
rOdney n. lanthOrne
taKeshi mitsuishi
dennis OtsuJi
JOe panetta
alBert p. pisanO, ph.d.
rOBert Whisler
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hOst COmmittee
OPENING CEREMONIES & GALA CHAIRKazuO KOshi, managing exeCutive OffiCer, mufg BanK, ltd.
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE KYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION ray mCKeWOn, the xCeptiOnal musiC CO.
niChOlas aguilera
Diego & Son Printing
dana s. alligOOd
Bank of America
hamptOn BrOWn San Diego International Airport
malin Burnham, KsO fOunder
Burnham Foundation
yuiKO tanaKa Cervantes
MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
melanie Cruz
UC San Diego
riChard h. davis
Kyoto Symposium Organization
paul devermann
Rotary Club of San Diego
linda gOldman
IMC - IM Creative
yuKO Kaifu
Japan House of Los Angeles
rOdney n. lanthOrne
Kyoto Symposium Organization
hOn. Kate leOnard
Hon. Consul General of Japan in San Diego
marisa taKeuChi lin
Kyoto Symposium Organization
taKatOshi Oda
Japan Airlines
JaCKye peaCOCK
Point Loma Nazarene University
margaret iWanaga penrOse Union of Pan Asian Communities
JaCK petersOn
Bank of America
rana sampsOn
MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
Bradley zlOtniCK, m.d.Sharp Healthcare
KyOtO prize sympOsium COmmuniCatiOns COmmittee Jay sCOvie, KyOCera, Chair
Juanita lahaye, uC san diegO, CO-Chair
deBra Bass
UC San Diego
riChard h. davis
Kyoto Symposium Organization
JOhn Kazemaini
Kyoto Symposium Organization
anthOny King
UC San Diego
JeriChO lOpez
UC San Diego
laura margOni
UC San Diego
dean nelsOn, ph.d. Point Loma Nazarene University
JaCKye peaCOCK
Point Loma Nazarene University
angela serranO
Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad, A.C.
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edWard aBeyta, ph.d.UC San Diego
yOshi BOgart
Kyocera, Ret.
lilly Cheng, ph.d.San Diego State University
alisOn COil, ph.d.UC San Diego
Cristina della COletta, ph.d.UC San Diego
melanie Cruz
UC San Diego
maysOOn dOng
UC San Diego
heath fOx
La Jolla Historical Society
alma lópez gariBay
Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad, A.C.
linda gOldman
IMC - IM Creative
Olivia gOnzalez
UC San Diego
ellen gOOdWin Ellen Goodwin Graphics
allan havis
UC San Diego
JOhn Kazemaini
Kyoto Symposium Organization
Juanita lahaye
UC San Diego
hOn. Kate leOnard
Hon. Consul General of Japan in San Diego
marisa taKeuChi lin
Kyoto Symposium Organization
darren lipOmi, ph.d. UC San Diego
Jeanne mann
Mann & Associates, APC, CPA
dean nelsOn, ph.d.Point Loma Nazarene University
JaCKye peaCOCK
Point Loma Nazarene University
alBert p. pisanO, ph.d.UC San Diego
Jeanette regalettO UC San Diego
BOnnie sCOtt, ph.d.San Diego State University, Ret.
Jay sCOvie
Kyocera
angela serranO
Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad, A.C.
laurie silvan
Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad, A.C.
reBeCCa tseng smith
UC San Diego
nathan sWOffOrd
Swofford’s Accounting
sharlene thOmpsOn
American Cancer Society, Ret.
sneJa tOmassian
UC San Diego
danielle valenCianO
San Diego Foundation
COnCepCiOn valladOlid
Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad, A.C.
mary WalshOK, ph.d.UC San Diego
riCh WargO
UC San Diego
KyOtO prize sympOsium planning & OperatiOns COmmittee
exeCutive direCtOrriChard h. davis
Kathy miChel BurdiCK
Jan davis
heath fOx
miChelle franKlin
aya iBarra
marisa taKeuChi lin
KeiKO suzuKi lOpez
elizaBeth sChiff
BOnnie sCOtt, p.h.d
luCille smith
neal smith
KyOtO prize sympOsium sChOlarship COmmittee
MEXICO
angela serranO, Chair
mariO garCía CarrasCO
alma lópez gariBay
laurie lynn silvan
COnCepCiOn vallOdOlid
USA
lilly Cheng, ph.d., Chair
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Wednesday, marCh 24, 2021, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.arts and philOsOphy presentatiOnUniversity of California San DiegoVirtual Program
Featuring Mrs. Ariane Mnouchkinetheater direCtOr
35th Annual Kyoto Prize Laureate in Arts and Philosophy
Mrs. Ariane Mnouchkine is a founder and director of the Théâtre du Soleil in Paris. A preeminent European director, she has produced masterpieces with historical and political themes tied to both the East and the West. Her five decades of theatre creation embody the ideal of “public theater.” Théâtre du Soleil often uses physicality - inspired by Japanese Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku; Indian Kathakali; and Western works such as Shakespeare. Her unique theatrical organization eschews hierarchical order. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Oxford and Roma III – and was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007 by the Venice Biennale.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
1939 Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, FranceLate 1950’s Joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and the
Experimental Theatrical Club1959 Established the Association Théâtrical des Étudiants de Paris
when studying at the Sorbonne1964 Founded the Théâtre du Soleil 1970 The Théâtre du Soleil moved into the Cartoucherie de Vincennes1984 Started the collaboration with Hélène Cixous2005 Held workshop and helped to create the Théâtre Aftaab in Kabul2005 Honorary Doctorate, Roma Tre University2007 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Venice Biennale2008 Honorary Doctorate, University of Oxford 2009 International Ibsen Award2012 International Stanislavsky Award2015 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit2017 Goethe Prize of Frankfurt au Main
Over six deCades Of stage direCtiOn innOvatiOn
Counterclockwise, from top: Wearing medal after Nov. 10, 2019 Kyoto Prize Ceremony; Les Naufrages du Fol Espoir, 2010 (The Castaways of Le Fol Espoir); On camera, 1978; Une Chambre en Inde, 2016 (A Room in India); Les Choephores, 1991 (The Libation Bearers).
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prOgram:
inamOri fOundatiOn videO
WelCOme
Pradeep K. Khosla, Ph.D.Chancellor, UC San Diego
Cristina Della Coletta, Ph.D.Dean, Division of Arts & Humanities, UC San Diego
intrOduCtiOn Of mrs. mnOuChKine
“Over six deCades Of stage direCtiOn innOvatiOn”Mrs. Ariane Mnouchkine Discussion with Prof. Allan Havis
and Invited Scholar, Mr. Robert Marx
Mrs. Ariane MnouchkineTheater Director
Director, Théâtre du Soleil2019 Kyoto Prize Laureate
Arts and Philosophy
a message frOm dr. KazuO inamOri
HOStS
the 2021 KyOtO Prize symPOsium PresentatiOn
inarts & PhilOsOPhy
Registration: http://kyotoprize-us.org/event-registration/
Mr. Rob MarxPresident, Fan Fox &
Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
Professor Allan HavisChair, Theatre & Dance Department
UC San Diego
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A Message from Mrs. Ariane Mnouchkine did yOu really KnOW tO WhOm yOu Were giving this prize?
We are such stuff as dreams are made on…
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
What is the fabric that the winner of such a majestic award as the Kyoto Prize is made of? Who made me? From which dreams of which countless dreamers did I come? Who created me?
Unintentionally, unknowingly. Without ever knowing me. Preceding me by many centuries or even several millennia. Who, long before me and much more than I, deserved this award? How can we remember these countless respectable winners, glorious or anonymous? How can we invoke them? How can we name them and do justice to them?
With what milk, with what bread was I fed? And above all, who milked this milk, who kneaded this bread? On what land has this wheat grown? Who harvested it? Under what sun? Which country has protected me and which countries have cultivated me?
Who are the women and men who have created me without even imagining their mutual existence? To whom do I owe for being myself? Who should I thank and who should I curse?
What multitudinous footsteps should I walk in to express my gratitude, my frustration and sometimes my fright? All these paths led to my imperfect little self but, as is the case with every human being, they form a planetary network.
These are the paths I will have to track down, to study and interpret in order to write this speech. This speech is highly intimidating for me. At the same time, I must admit, the frightening obligation has the virtue of pushing me towards this investigation and recognition.
By awarding it to me, to how many hundreds, maybe thousands, of women and men, have you, in truth, awarded this benevolent and sumptuous prize?
To whom do I owe all this? These privileges, this loving environment, this comfort, this luxury, this beauty, this refinement, this respect: to whom do I owe them? To whose and how many’s sweat, courage, heroism, sacrifice, devotion, constancy, obstinacy, genius and enlightenment?
How many fights and deaths did it take for me, a woman, to live free, to freely serve theatre and to receive such an honour?
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Allan Havis has taught theatre and film over three decades at UC San Diego. He earned his MFA at Yale in the School of Drama. As a playwright, his work has been produced widely in the U.S. and in Europe. Nineteen plays have been published including anthologies in Penguin/Mentor, TCG, and Broadway Play Publishing. He has edited three American Political Play anthologies since 2001; his latest is from London’s Bloomsbury Press, American Political Plays in the Age of Terrorism. His young adult novel Albert the Astronomer was published by Harper & Row in 1979 and Albert Down a Wormhole by Goodreads Press last year. Havis wrote a popular cinema studies book, Cult Films: Taboo & Transgression in 2007. His latest opera project, The Golem of La Jolla, in collaboration with composer Michael Roth, had a concert presentation last October in La Jolla Playhouse’s WoW Festival and will be showcased this June at the Lyceum Theatre as part of the San Diego Jewish Arts Festival. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Kennedy Center/American Express, CBS, HBO, National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and San Diego Theatre Critics Circle 2003 Outstanding New Play for Nuevo California. Havis was a recent artist-in-residence at Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman Estate. He was Provost of Thurgood Marshall College/UC San Diego and currently serves as Chair of the Theatre & Dance Department.
intrOduCing mrs. ariane mnOuChKine: prOfessOr allan havisChair, Theatre & Dance Department, University of California San Diego
Cristina Della Coletta was appointed dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego in 2014. She also holds the Chancellor’s Associates Chair in Italian literature. Della Coletta spearheaded the creation of the Institute of Arts and Humanities, the Institute for Practical Ethics, and Arts and Community Engagement. Della Coletta holds a Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere from the Università di Venezia, Italy, and a master’s degree in Italian from the University of Virginia. She earned her Ph.D. in Italian from UCLA. Della Coletta is the author of When Stories Travel: Cross-Cultural Encounters Between Fiction and Film (2012), World’s Fairs Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and Their Narratives (2006) and Plotting the Past: Metamorphoses of Historical Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction (1996). In 2006, Della Coletta was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in Italian Studies and has received numerous teaching and mentoring awards. In her administrative capacity, Della Coletta was a fellow at the Berkeley Institute on Higher Education (2014), the Harvard Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (2013), and the University of Virginia’s Leadership in Academic Matters Program (2009).
WelCOme remarKs and intrOduCtiOns: Cristina della COletta, ph.d.Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities, University of California San Diego
Mr. Robert Marx is President of the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, one of New York City’s leading arts philanthropies. He has been director of the theatre programs at both the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. and the NY State Council on the Arts, and was the first executive director of Lincoln Center’s NY Public Library for the Performing Arts. He has worked with major theatres, opera companies and international arts festivals from Los Angeles to Salzburg, and has co-produced plays Off-Broadway. His essays on theatre and opera have been published in newspapers and magazines ranging from The New York Times to Opera News, and in anthologies of critical writing. Since 1995, he has been a featured intermission commentator and Opera Quiz panelist on the Metropolitan Opera’s international radio broadcasts. He first worked with Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil as part of the team that produced the company’s 1984 US debut at the Los Angeles Olympic the largest arts festival ever staged in the United States and a component of that year’s L.A. Olympic Games Arts Festival. Mr. Marx earned his MFA degree at Yale.
invited sChOlar: mr. rOBert marx President of the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
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Counterclockwise, from top: Wearing medal after Nov. 10, 2019 Kyoto Prize ceremony; Teaching at the University of Rochester; With Rochester students; First Kodak employee photo, 1975; Three generations of women in his life – my grandmother, wife and mother in early 1980s.
thursday, marCh 25, 2021 - 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.advanCed teChnOlOgy presentatiOnUniversity of California San DiegoVirtual Program
Featuring Prof. Ching W. TangChemist
35th Annual Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology
Ching W. Tang, Ph.D is Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester and Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He invented a new device structure of two carefully selected materials to allow high-efficiency light emission at low drive voltages. This pioneering work led to the practical use of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), and their widespread use in displays, televisions and lighting. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Prof. Tang has received dozens of awards and honors, including the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the IEEE Noble Award for Emerging Technologies. In 2018 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
1947 Born in Hong Kong1970 B.S. in Chemistry, University of British Columbia1975 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Cornell University1975-1981 Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak Company1981-1990 Senior Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak1990-1998 Research Associate, Eastman Kodak1998-2003 Senior Research Associate, Eastman Kodak2003-2006 Distinguished Research Fellow, Eastman Kodak2006-2017 Doris Johns Cherry Professor, Department of Chemical
Engineering, University of Rochester2013- IAS Bank of East Asia Professor, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology2017- Professor Emeritus, University of Rochester
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Pradeep K. Khosla, Ph.D.Chancellor, UC San Diego
Albert P. Pisano, Ph.D.Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
intrOduCtiOn Of prOf. tang
Darren J. Lipomi, Ph.D.Professor, Department of NanoEngineering
UC San Diego
“evOlutiOn Of Oled display teChnOlOgy” Ching W. Tang, Ph.D.
ChemistProfessor Emeritus, University of Rochester
Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology2019 Kyoto Prize Laureate
Advanced Technology
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a message frOm dr. KazuO inamOri
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Registration: http://kyotoprize-us.org/event-registration/
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A message from Prof. Ching W. TangevOlutiOn Of Oled display teChnOlOgy
My first experience with organic light emitting diodes (OLED) took place at the Kodak Research Laboratories. Hired in 1975 as a research chemist, I began my career with an assignment to
develop efficient and low-cost solar cells for light to electricity conversion. Specifically, I was asked to look into using organic dyes and pigments as alternative photovoltaic materials to inorganic semiconductors such as silicon. After spending nearly three years on the project, I was still nowhere close to the device performance needed for practical use. Frustrated, I was about to move on to other projects when I saw the light, literally, from a poorly constructed solar cell when it was driven with excessive current. Thus, I found myself with a new project having the opposite focus—converting electricity to light. Little did I know that this discovery would lead to a premier display technology decades later.
In 1987, almost a decade after the discovery, I published a paper in Applied Physics Letters (co-authored with Steve Van Slyke) describing the bi-layer structure, material composition, and device performance of an OLED device, referred to as an organic electroluminescent diode in the paper. It turned out that the bi-layer structure held the key to achieving a high electricity to light conversion efficiency. Also known as an organic heterojunction, its utility had first been realized in my prior work on organic solar cells. With the bi-layer structure, charge generation (in solar cells) or recombination (in OLED) is greatly enhanced by confining these processes, via excitons, at its interface. In the OLED case, the efficiency gain is the result of maximizing the radiative recombination at the bi-layer interface while minimizing the non-radiative recombination at the electrodes. This milestone paper ushered in a worldwide effort to develop OLED for display applications.
Display technologies have progressed rapidly over the last few decades, advancing from cathode ray tubes to flat-panel displays. Among various flat-panel displays, liquid crystal display has been the leading technology—until the emergence of high-performance OLED displays in recent years. With its numerous attributes, OLED has laid claim to the best display technology ever developed. In this presentation, I will trace the evolution of OLED from its discovery to its commercialization from my personal perspective.
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Darren J. Lipomi is a Professor in the Department of NanoEngineering and Programs in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the UC San Diego. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry with a minor in physics from Boston University in 2005 and his Ph.D. in chemistry at Harvard University in 2010. From 2010 – 2012, he was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. His research interests broadly encompass the design and synthesis of nanostructured and organic materials having interesting and useful electronic and mechanical function. Applications for this work include solar energy harvesting in remote and rugged locations, mechanical biosensors for applications in wearable health monitors and cell biology, and materials that interface with the tactile sense for the integration of touch with telemedicine. He is the recipient of the NSF BRIGE award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Program award, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). His research website is lipomigroup.org.
intrOduCing prOf. Ching W. tang: darren J. lipOmi, ph.d.Professor, Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego
WelCOme remarKs and intrOduCtiOns: alBert p. pisanO, ph.d.Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego
Albert (“Al”) P. Pisano was appointed as the Dean of Engineering at UC San Diego in 2013. He held appointments at the University of California at Berkeley for 30 years, serving in a number of leadership positions. He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2001 and to Fellow status in the ASME in 2004. As the Dean of Engineering, he holds the Walter J. Zable Chair of Engineering, and is a Distinguished Professor both in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering and in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 1997-1999 as Program Manager for MEMS at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), he expanded the research portfolio to 83 contracts awarded nationwide with a total MEMS research expenditure in excess of $168 million over three fiscal years. He has graduated nearly 70 Ph.D. students and 75 M.S. students, and is an author of over 400 journal papers and 36 patents.
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thursday, marCh 25, 2021, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.BasiC sCienCes presentatiOnUniversity of California San DiegoVirtual Program
Featuring Prof. James E. GunnastrOPhysiCist
35th Annual Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences
James E. Gunn. Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University who led the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from its inception in 2000. SDSS has produced three-dimensional digital cosmic maps which, in effect, mapped the cosmos. He has contributed to the elucidation of the evolutionary history of the universe. Prof. Gunn played a vital leading role in the project, including planning, instrument development, and data analysis, all of which help with pioneering astrophysical theories. These significant contributions continue to lead our understanding of the universe. Prof. Gunn is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, with many awards including the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology and the National Medal of Science.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
1938 Born in Livingston, Texas1961 B.S., Rice University1965 Ph.D. in Astronomy and Physics, California Institute of
Technology1966-1968 Senior Space Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA1968-1970 Assistant Professor, Princeton University1970-1972 Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology1972-1980 Professor, California Institute of Technology1980-2011 Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysical Sciences Princeton University1991-2011 Project Scientist, Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2011- Emeritus Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University
mapping the universe—past tO future
Counterclockwise, from top: Wearing medal after Nov. 10, 2019 Kyoto Prize ceremony; team primarily responsible for work on the SDSS during its design at Princeton; the Caltech team around 1982; with mother in 1938, with mother during military service, around 1962.
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prOgram:
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Pradeep K. Khosla, Ph.D.Chancellor, UC San Diego
Steven E. Boggs, Ph.D.Dean, Division of Physical Sciences, UC San Diego
intrOduCtiOn Of prOf. gunn
Alison Coil, Ph.D.Professor of Physics,
Center for Astrophysics & Space SciencesUC San Diego
“understanding the universe and the things that live in it thrOugh astrOnOmiCal surveys”
James E. Gunn, Ph.D.Astrophysicist
Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
2019 Kyoto Prize LaureateBasic Sciences
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Registration: http://kyotoprize-us.org/event-registration/
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A message from Prof. James E. Gunnunderstanding the universe and the things that live in it
thrOugh astrOnOmiCal surveys
Astronomers have been charting the heavens for thousands of years, recording the positions of stars and planets and estimating their brightnesses. Before our understanding of the physics
of astronomical objects, these charts, maps, and catalogs were mostly of religious, navigational, and calendar interest, though the very accurate catalogs of positions recorded by Tycho allowed the geometry of the solar system to be worked out by Kepler, and allowed the orbits to be explained by Newton with his theory of gravitation. Physics had come to astronomy.
Today astronomy is all physics and chemistry of astronomical objects (and still quite a lot of wonder, in case “you” wondered). We do research of two sorts, mainly. On the one hand, working on the specific properties of one or a few objects to understand in detail how they work as individuals, or, on the other hand, gathering data and studying whole populations of objects or the physical structure of the whole universe through large surveys. This is the subject which has been the primary emphasis of most of my career and which I will discuss in my lecture.
The universe is populated by galaxies, which are made of stars and gas and dust and a collection of weird objects which stars leave behind when they die. These aggregate into groups and clusters, which are the largest coherent structures in the universe. There are typically a hundred billion stars in a galaxy like our own, and the observable universe holds of order a hundred billion galaxies. These numbers are too vast to allow study of each individual object of any kind, and surveys are designed to allow us to study their statistical properties, thus enabling us to extend the study of many representative individuals to the whole population by doing a census of the kinds of objects in the population. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey which I originated and served as Project Scientist for many years obtained such a study of the nearby universe.
Light travels at finite speed, so studying a population of very distant (and faint) objects allow us to see what objects in the universe were like in the distant past. Surveys underway now with large telescopes, including the Japanese Subaru Telescope, will enable us to open this history book on the evolution and development of the universe.
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Alison Coil is a Professor of Physics and a member of the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at the University of California San Diego, where she is the Ingrid and Joseph W. Hibben Chair in Space Science and Education. She is also an Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Division of Physical Sciences. She received her B.A. degree in Astrophysics from Princeton University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of California Berkeley in 2004. She was a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Arizona before joining the faculty at the University of California San Diego in 2008. She is an observational astronomer, and her research interests include the large-scale structure of the universe, galaxy evolution, and feedback from stars and supermassive black holes. Dr. Coil has received multiple honors for her research, teaching, and diversity and inclusion work, including a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, a UC San Diego Distinguished Teaching Award, a UC San Diego Inclusive Excellence Award, and a UC San Diego Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action & Diversity Award.
intrOduCing prOf. James e. gunn: alisOn COil, ph.d.Professor of Physics, Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences,
University of California San Diego
Steven E. Boggs is Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at the University of California San Diego, a professor of physics in UC San Diego’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, and the holder of the Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair in Physics. As an experimental high-energy astrophysicist, Boggs’ specialty is in developing X-ray, gamma-ray and cosmic-ray instruments to study physical processes in the universe. Prior to UC San Diego, Boggs headed UC Berkeley’s Department of Physics, which ranked No. 1 in the world in the 2014 and 2015 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
WelCOme remarKs and intrOduCtiOns: steven e. BOggs, ph.d. Dean, Division of Physical Science, University of California San Diego
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Year Advanced Technology Basic Sciences Arts and Philosophy
1985 Rudolf Emil Kalman (U.S.A.) Claude Elwood Shannon (U.S.A.) Olivier Messiaen (France) Control Theory Scientist Information Scientist Composer
The Special Commemorative Kyoto Prize To The Nobel Foundation (Sweden)
1986 Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France) George Evelyn Hutchinson (U.S.A.) Isamu Noguchi (U.S.A.) Developmental Biologist Limnologist Sculptor
1987 Morris Cohen (U.S.A.) Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands) Andrzej Wajda (Poland) Metallurgist Astronomer Film Director
1988 John McCarthy (U.S.A.) Avram Noam Chomsky (U.S.A.) Paul Thieme (West Germany) Computer Scientist Theoretical Linguist Indologist
1989 Amos Edward Joel, Jr. (U.S.A.) Israel Moiseevich Gelfand (U.S.S.R) John Cage (U.S.A.) Telecommunication Engineer Mathematician Composer
1990 Sydney Brenner (U.K.) Jane Goodall (U.K.) Renzo Piano (Italy) Molecular Biologist Primatologist Architect
1991 Michael Szware (U.S.A.) Edward Norton Lorenz (U.S.A.) Peter Stephen Paul Brook (U.K.) Macromolecular Chemist Meteorologist Stage Director
1992 Maurice Vincent Wilkes (U.K.) Yasutomi Nishizuka (Japan) Karl Raimund Popper (U.K.) Computer Engineer Biochemist Philosopher
1993 Jack St. Clair Kilby (U.S.A.) William Donald Hamilton (U.K.) Witold Lutoslawski (Poland) Semiconductor Engineer Behavioral Ecologist Composer
1994 Paul Christian Lauterbur (U.S.A.) André Weil (France) Akira Kurosawa (Japan) Chemist Mathematician Film Director
1995 George William Gray (U.K.) Chushiro Hayashi (Japan) Roy Lichtenstein (U.S.A.) Chemist Astrophysicist Artist
1996 Donald Ervin Knuth (U.S.A.) Mario Renato Capecchi (U.S.A.) Willard Van Orman Quine (U.S.A.) Computer Scientist Molecular Geneticist Philosopher
1997 Federico Faggin (Italy) Daniel Hunt Janzen (U.S.A.) Iannis Xenakis (France) Semiconductor Engineer and Entrepreneur Tropical Biologist Composer Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr. (U.S.A.) Electronics Engineer Stanely Mazor (U.S.A.) Software Engineer Masatoshi Shima (Japan) Semiconductor Engineer
1998 Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland) Kiyosi Itô (Japan) Nam June Paik (U.S.A.) Structural Biologist Mathematician Media Artist
1999 W. David Kingery (U.S.A.) Walter H. Munk (U.S.A.) Maurice Béjart (France) Ceramic Material Scientist Oceanographer Choreographer
2000 Paul Ricoeur (France) Walter Jakob Gehring (Switzerland) Antony Hoare (U.K.) Developmental Biologist Computer Scientist Philosopher
2001 Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia) John Maynard Smith (U.K.) György Ligeti (Austria) Physicist Evolutionary Biologist Composer Izuo Hayashi (Japan) Physicist Morton B. Panish (U.S.A.) Physical Chemist
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2002 Leroy Edward Hood (U.S.A.) Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (France) Tadao Ando (Japan) Biologist Mathematician Architect
2003 George McClelland Whitesides (U.S.A.) Eugene Newman Parker (U.S.A.) Tamao Yoshida (Japan) Chemist Physicist Theater
2004 Alan Curtis Kay (U.S.A.) Alfred George Knudson, Jr. (U.S.A.) Jürgen Habermas (Germany) Computer Scientist Geneticist Philosopher
2005 George H. Heilmeier (U.S.A.) Simon Asher Levin (U.S.A.) Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria) Electronics Engineer Ecologist Conductor
2006 Leonard A. Herzenberg (U.S.A.) Hirotugu Akaike (Japan) Issey Miyake (Japan) Immunologist Mathematician Designer
2007 Hiroo Inokuchi (Japan) Hiroo Kanamori (Japan) Pina Bausch (Germany) Organic Chemist Seismologist Choreographer
2008 Richard Manning Karp (U.S.A.) Anthony James Pawson (Canada; U.K.) Charles Taylor (Canada) Computer Scientist Molecular Biologist Philosopher
2009 Isamu Akasaki (Japan) Peter Raymond Grant (U.K.) Pierre Boulez (France) Electronics Barbara Rosemary Grant (U.K.) Music Evolutionary Biologists
2010 Shinya Yamanaka (Japan) László Lovász (Hungary) William Kentridge (South Africa) Medical Scientist Mathmetician Arts
2011 John Werner Cahn (U.S.A.) Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Russia) Tamasaburo Bando V (Japan) Materials Science and Engineering Astrophysicist Kabuki Actor
2012 Ivan Edward Sutherland (U.S.A.) Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (India) Computer Scientist Molecular Cell Biologist Literary Critic, Educator
2013 Robert Heath Dennard (U.S.A.) Masatoshi Nei (U.S.A.) Cecil Taylor (U.S.A.) Electronics Engineer Evolutionary Biologist Music
2014 Robert Langer (U.S.A.) Edward Witten (U.S.A.) Fukumi Shimura (Japan) Biomedical Engineer Theoretical Physicist Dyeing and Weaving Artist
2015 Toyoki Kunitake (Japan) Michel Mayor (Switzerland) John Neumeier (Germany, U.S.A.) Chemist Astrophysicist Choreographer
2016 Takeo Kanade (Japan) Tasuku Honjo (Japan) Martha Craven Nussbaum (U.S.A.) Roboticist Medical Scientist Philosopher
2017 Takashi Mimura (Japan) Graham Farquhar (Australia) Richard Taruskin (U.S.A.) Semiconductor Engineer Plant Physiologist Musicologist
2018 Karl Deisseroth (U.S.A.) Masaki Kashiwara (Japan) Joan Jonas (U.S.A.) Neuroscientist Mathematician Video Performance Artist
2019 Ching W. Tang (U.S.A.) James E. Gunn (U.S.A.) Ariane Mnouchkine (France) Chemist Astrophysicist Theater Director
Year Advanced Technology Basic Sciences Arts and Philosophy
saluting the KyOtO prize reCipients, 1985-2019 (COnt.)
Laureates are awarded their prizes on November 10 in Kyoto. They present to North America in March in San Diego at the Kyoto Prize Symposium.
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You are a visionaryThere’s nothing more powerful than leaders who motivate those around them with a strong sense of purpose. We salute visionaries who have made such substantial breakthroughs.
We’re proud to sponsor the 20th annual Kyoto Prize Symposium and celebrate the 2021 Kyoto Prize Symposium Laureates:
Advanced Technology: Prof. Ching W. TangArts & Philosophy: Mrs. Ariane MnouchkineBasic Sciences: Prof. James E. Gunn