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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 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 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 .
France: 1922–2001 Music 1998 Nam June Paik United States: 1932–2006 Arts 1999 Maurice Béjart France: 1927–2007 Theater, cinema 2000 Paul Ricœur France: 1913–2005 Thought and Ethics 2001 György Ligeti Austria / Hungary: 1923–2006 Music 2002 Tadao Ando Japan: born 1941 Arts 2003 Tamao Yoshida Japan: 1919–2006 Theater, cinema 2004
Several prizes in fields of study and achievement not covered by the original Nobel Prizes have been established by various entities. Some have been referred to as the "Nobel Prize of" that particular field, in the vast majority of cases without the approval of the Nobel Foundation. These prizes are generally the highest awards in their fields.
The Prize is one of three Kyoto Prize categories; the others are the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology and the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences. 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 ...
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.
The top computer science award is the ACM Turing Award, generally regarded as the Nobel Prize equivalent for Computer Science. [1] Other highly regarded top computer science awards include IEEE John von Neumann Medal awarded by the IEEE Board of Directors, and the Japan Kyoto Prize for Information Science.