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The Kyoto Prize (京都賞, Kyōto-shō) is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind". [ 3 ]
The first Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology was awarded to Rudolf E. Kálmán, the "creator of modern control and system theory". [1] The Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in fields which are traditionally not honored with a Nobel Prize. [2] [3]
The first Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences was awarded to Claude Elwood Shannon, the “Establishment of Mathematical Foundation of Information Theory”. [1] The Prize is regarded as a prestigious award available in fields which are traditionally not honored with a Nobel Prize .
The first Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy was awarded to Olivier Messiaen in 1985, the "greatest composer to have emerged from 20th century France". [1] The Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in fields not traditionally honored with a Nobel Prize .
Wolf Prize (1978), which is considered second in importance to the Nobel Prize (but considered first in importance for the fields that doesn't have a Nobel Prize), with more than a third of recipients going on to win the Nobel, recognizing outstanding achievements in medicine, agriculture, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and arts [20] [357]
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This is a list of Kyoto Prize winners, awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation. [1] [2] Basic sciences. Source: Kyoto Prize. Year Laureate Country 1985
The prestigious prize presentation ceremony is held in the presence of the Emperor and the Empress of Japan. According to his book Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, [2] Kary Mullis, 1993 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, addressed Empress Michiko as sweetie when being awarded the prize in 1993 for the development of the polymerase chain reaction.