Japan
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Nihon Hidankyo
Japan
for its long-standing efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through survivor testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again, as well as for its extraordinary contribution to establishing the nuclear taboo
Tasuku Honjo
Japan
for the discovery of immune-checkpoint inhibitors and their application to cancer therapy
Takaaki Kajita
Japan
for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass (Nucl. Phys. B-Proc. Suppl. 77 (1999) 123 〈Kajita〉, 43 〈McDonald〉)
Satoshi Ōmura
Japan
for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites
Isamu Akasaki
Japan
for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which have enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources
Hiroshi Amano
Japan
for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which have enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources
Shinya Yamanaka
Japan
for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
Makoto Kobayashi
Japan
for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature (Progress of Theoretical Physics 49 (1973) 652-657)
Toshihide Maskawa
Japan
for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature (Progress of Theoretical Physics 49 (1973) 652-657)
Osamu Shimomura
Japan
for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japan
for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos
Koichi Tanaka
Japan
Development of methods for identification and structural analysis of biological macromolecules (development of soft desorption ionisation techniques for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules)
Kenzaburo Oe
Japan
who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today
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Shigefumi Mori, 1951年 -）
Japan
for the proof of Hartshorne’s conjecture and his work on the classification of three-dimensionalalgebraic varieties.
Susumu Tonegawa
Japan
for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity
Leo Esaki
Japan
for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and in superconductors, respectively (Phys. Rev. Lett. 5 (1960) 147-148; 464-466)
Heisuke Hironaka, 1931年 - ）
Japan
Generalized work ofZariskiwho had proved for dimension ≤3 the theorem concerning the resolution of singularities on analgebraic variety. Hironaka proved the results in any dimension.
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan
for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind
Shin-ichiro Tomonaga
Japan
for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles
Kunihiko Kodaira,
Japan
Achieved major results in the theory of harmonic integrals and numerous applications to Kählerian and more specifically toalgebraic varieties. He demonstrated, by sheaf cohomology, that such varieties areHodge manifolds.
Hideki Yukawa
Japan
for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces (Proc. Phys. Math. Soc. Jap. 17, 48 (1935))