Award Winning Research Kyoto University is acknowledged as one of the most accomplished research-oriented universities in Asia. That reputation is 2016 testified by the accolades conferred on our alumni and researchers, most notably nine Nobel Prize laureates who undertook vital research during their time at the university. In addition to those awards, several other Kyoto University faculty members have received major accolades, including two Fields Medalists, one Gauss Prize winner, and five Lasker Award winners. Nobel Prize 1949, Physics 1965, Physics 1981, Chemistry 1987, Physiology and 2001, Chemistry Hideki Yukawa Shinichiro Tomonaga Kenichi Fukui Medicine Ryoji Noyori Susumu Tonegawa 2008, Physics 2008, Physics 2012, Physiology or 2014, Physics Makoto Kobayashi Toshihide Maskawa Medicine Isamu Akasaki Shinya Yamanaka Fields Medal Gauss Prize Kyoto Prize 1970, Mathematics 1990, Mathematics 2006, Mathematics 1995, Basic Sciences 1998, Basic Sciences 2004, 2010, Heisuke Hironaka Shigefumi Mori Kiyoshi Ito Chushiro Hayashi Kiyoshi Ito Advanced Technology Advanced Technology Alan Curtis Kay Shinya Yamanaka Japan Prize Lasker Award 2005, Information and 2005, Cell Biology 1987, Basic Medical 1989, Basic Medical 1998, Basic Medical 2009, Basic Medical 2014, Basic Medical Media Technology Masatoshi Takeichi Research Research Research Research Research Makoto Nagao Susumu Tonegawa Yasutomi Nishizuka Yoshio Masui Shinya Yamanaka Kazutoshi Mori *photos provided by the Japan Prize Foundation ©e Nobel Foundation2012 photo by Alexander Mahmoud Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, director of the Prof. Kayo Inaba, Kyoto University’s Prof. Kazutoshi Mori of Kyoto Center for iPS Cell Research and executive vice-president for gender University’s Graduate School of Science Application (CiRA), receives the 2012 equality, international affairs, and public receiving the 2014 Albert Lasker Award Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. relations, receiving the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Basic Medical Research. Award for Women in Science 2014. KYOTO UNIVERSITY AT A GLANCE 2016–2017 6.