Prizewinners
The University of Osaka-related Awardees
Table of Contents
International Prizes
Name | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
YUKAWA Hideki | Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces | 1949 |
SAKAGUCHI Shimon | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance | 2025 |
Name | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
HANAFUSA Hidesaburo | Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome | 1982 |
Name | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
AKIRA Shizuo | Discovery of proteins playing a key role in innate immunity | 2011 |
SAKAGUCHI Shimon | Discovery of regulatory T cells, characterization of their role in immunity and application to the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer | 2015 |
Name | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
HAYAISHI Osamu | The Wolf Prize in Medicine "for his discovery of the oxygenase enzymes and elucidation of their structure and biological importance." | 1986 |
SATO Mikio | The Wolf Prize in Mathematics for foundation of algebraic analysis, theories of hyperfunction and micro-local hyperfunction, Holonomic quantum field theory, and creation of algebraic analysis including a unified theory of soliton equations. | 2002-2003 |
Name | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
KISHIMOTO Tadamitsu | For their pioneering work in isolating interleukins, determining their properties and exploring their role in the onset of inflammatory diseases | 2009 |
HIRANO Toshio | ||
SAKAGUCHI Shimon | For discoveries relating to regulatory T cells, which counteract harmful immune reactions in arthritis and other autoimmune diseases | 2017 |
Name | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
KASAMI Tadao | For his significant contributions to coding theory | 1999 |
Name | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
KISHIMOTO Tadamitsu | Discovery of interleukin-6 and its applications in the treatment of diseases (Fields of Materials Science and Production) | 2011 |
HIRANO Toshio | ||
OKAMOTO Yoshio | Leading contributions to precision synthesis of helical polymers and development of practical chiral materials for separating chiral drugs (Field of Life Sciences and Medicine) | 2019 |
AKIRA Shizuo | Elucidation of the nucleic acid recognition mechanism by the innate immune system (Field of Life Sciences) | 2026 |
Name | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
MIMURA Takashi | Invention of the High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) and Its Development for the Progress of Information and Communications Technology | 2017 |
Domestic Prizes
Order of Culture
Name | Research field | Year |
|---|---|---|
NAGAOKA Hantaro | Physics | 1937 |
YUKAWA Hideki | Atomic Physics | 1943 |
OKABE Kinjiro | Electric Engineering | 1944 |
MAJIMA Toshiyuki | Chemistry | 1949 |
KIKUCHI Seishi | Atomic Physics | 1951 |
YAGI Hidetsugu | Electric Engineering | 1956 |
AKAHORI Shiro | Bioorganic Chemistry | 1965 |
NITTA Isamu | Crystal chemistry | 1966 |
SHODA Kenjiro | Mathematics | 1969 |
YASUI Takuma | Modern Economics | 1971 |
HAYAISHI Osamu | Biochemistry | 1972 |
MORISHIMA Michio | Theoretical Economics | 1976 |
KOTANI Masao | Molecular Physiology, Biophysics | 1980 |
OKADA Yoshio | Cytogenetics | 1987 |
IMAI Isao | Hydrodynamics | 1988 |
HANAFUSA Hidesaburo | Cytobiology, Molecular Oncology | 1995 |
KISHIMOTO Tadamitsu | Immunology | 1998 |
TOYOSHIMA Kumao | Virology, Oncology | 2001 |
ARATA Yoshiaki | High Temperature Engineering, Welding Engineering | 2006 |
SHIBA Yoshinobu | Chinese History | 2017 |
MATSUBARA Kenichi | Molecular Biology | 2017 |
YAMAZAKI Masakazu | Theater/Literature | 2018 |
SAKAGUCHI Shimon | Immunology | 2019 |
KAWASHIMA Yasunaru | cardiovascular surgery | 2025 |
KOMATSU Kazuhiko | Folklore | 2025 |
Person of Cultural Merit
Name | Research field | Year |
|---|---|---|
YUKAWA Hideki | Physics | 1951 |
OKABE Kinjiro | Electric Engineering | 1951 |
MAJIMA Riko | Chemistry | 1951 |
KIKUCHI Seishi | Atomic Physics | 1952 |
YAGI Hidetsugu | Electric Engineering | 1956 |
IMAMURA Arao | Internal Medicine | 1960 |
KOTAKE Yashiro | Biochemistry | 1961 |
TAKATA Yasuma | Sociology | 1964 |
AKAHORI Shiro | Bioorganic Chemistry | 1965 |
NITTA Isamu | Crystal chemistry | 1966 |
SHODA Kenjiro | Mathematics | 1969 |
YASUI Takuma | Modern Economics | 1971 |
HAYAISHI Osamu | Biochemistry | 1972 |
MORISHIMA Michio | Theoretical Economics | 1976 |
KOTANI Masao | Molecular Physics | 1977 |
IMAI Isao | Hydrodynamics | 1979 |
OKADA Yoshio | Cytogenetics | 1982 |
INUKAI Takashi | Manyoshu Studies | 1987 |
MIYAMOTO Mataji | History of Japan Economy, History of Management in Japan | 1988 |
YAMAMURA Yuichi | Internal Medicine, Immunology, Biochemistry | 1988 |
KISHIMOTO Tadamitsu | Immunology | 1990 |
HANAFUSA Hidesaburo | Cytobiology, Molecular Oncology | 1991 |
ARATA Yoshiaki | High Temperature Engineering, Welding Engineering | 1995 |
TOYOSHIMA Kumao | Virology, Oncology | 1998 |
KUMAGAI Nobuaki | Electromagnetic Wave Engineering | 1999 |
NAGATA Shigekazu | Molecular Biology, Biochemistry | 2001 |
SHINKAI Yoichi | Macroeconomics, International Economics | 2004 |
MATSUBARA Kenichi | Molecular Biology, Academic Promotion | 2006 |
YAMAZAKI Masakazu | Playwriting, Criticism | 2006 |
SHIBA Yoshinobu | Oriental History | 2006 |
KAWASHIMA Yasunaru | Transplant Surgery , Medical Education, Healthcare Promotion | 2007 |
AKIRA Shizuo | Immunology | 2009 |
YANAGIDA Toshio | Biophysics | 2013 |
HAMAKAWA Yoshihiro | Applied Physics | 2015 |
NISHIO Shojiro | Information Science, Academic Promotion | 2016 |
MURAI Shinji | Synthetic Organic Chemistry | 2017 |
SAKAGUCHI Shimon | Immunology | 2017 |
TONO Haruyuki | Ancient Japanese History | 2017 |
INOKI Takenori | Economics | 2019 |
KINSUI Satoshi | Japanese Linguistics | 2023 |
KAWATA Satoshi | Applied Physics | 2024 |
Imperial Award and Japan Academy Prize
Name | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
YUKAWA Hideki | Theoretical Study on the Interaction of Elementary Particles and Prediction of the Existence of Mesotrons in Cosmic Rays | 1940 |
OKABE Kinjiro | Research Regarding Magnetrons | 1941 |
SAKATA Shoichi | Two Meson Theory | 1950 |
IMAI Isao | Contributions to Aerodynamics | 1959 |
NAGAMIYA Takeo | Theoretical Studies on Antiferromagnetism | 1963 |
YOSHIDA Kosaku | A Study of Modern Analysis | 1967 |
MIYAMOTO Mataji | A Study of the Ono-Gumi | 1971 |
TAKASAKI Jikido | Development at Thatāgata-garbha Doctrine | 1975 |
OKADA Yoshio | Cell Fusion and Cell Engineering | 1980 |
HARA Kokichi | L'Œuvre Mathématique de Pascal | 1982 |
SATO Ryo | Studies on the Microsomal Monooxygenase System | 1985 |
KISHIMOTO Tadamitsu | Studies on Interleukin 6 | 1992 |
HONJO Tasuku | Studies on Regulation of Immunoglobulin Class Switching | 1996 |
YANAGIDA Toshio | Direct Manipulation and Observation of Molecular Machines of Biological Movements | 1998 |
NAGATA Shigekazu | Studies on Molecular Mechanism of Apoptosis | 2000 |
AKIRA Shizuo | Pathogen Recognition by Innate Immunity and its Signaling | 2007 |
NAMBA Keiichi | Structural and Functional Analyses of Biological Macromolecular Nanomachines Articles about his winning the Imperial Award and Japan Academy Prize | 2012 |
Japan Academy Prize
Name | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
MAJIMA Riko | Investigations on the Constitution of Urushiol | 1917 |
KOTAKE Yashiro* | Studies on the Intermediate Metabolism of Tryptophan | 1933 |
KUNUGI Kinjiro | Researches on the Theory of Abstract Spaces | 1939 |
NITTA Isamu | Researches on Chemical Constitution by the X-ray Method | 1943 |
KOTAKE Munio | Chemical Studies on Toad Poisons | 1944 |
KOTANI Masao | Oscillation Mechanism of a Magnetron and Theoretical Study on Wave Guides and Resonators | 1948 |
KURU Masaru | Studies on the Determination of the Posterior Horn Cells relative to the Conduction of Pain and Temperature Sensation | 1949 |
SHODA Kenjiro | Studies in Modern Abstract Algebra | 1949 |
KIKKAWA Hideo | Studies in Biochemical Genetics on Insects | 1952 |
NAKAYAMA Tadashi | Investigations on the Theory of Rings and Representations | 1954 |
AKABORI Shiro | Studies on the Mode of Combination of Amino Acids in Proteins | 1955 |
TITANI Toshizo | Researches on Stable Isotopes | 1956 |
NAGASAWA Nobuhisa | Studies in St. Augustine's Philosophy | 1961 |
ICHIHARA Katashi | Studies on Intermediate Metabolism of Some Amino Acids and Related Enzymes | 1961 |
SUDA Masami | ||
HAYAISHI Osamu | Studies on Oxygenases | 1967 |
OKUNUKI Kazuo | Studies on Cytochrome Systems | 1968 |
UYEO Shojiro | Studies of the Chemistry of the Basic Poisonous Constituents of Lycoris radiata Herb | 1970 |
KAMIYA Noburo | Studies on Protoplasmic Streaming and Some Water Relations in Plant Cells | 1971 |
NOMURA Masayasu | Studies on Reconstruction of Ribosomes | 1972 |
KAWAI Naoto | Experimental Studies of Earth Materials under Extremely High Pressures and High Temperatures | 1973 |
NISHIYAMA Zenji | Studies on Martensite Transformations of Alloys | 1973 |
KUBOTA Takashi | Studies on Bitter Principles of Plants | 1975 |
SEKI Shuzo | Research on Structural Thermodynamics of Solids | 1976 |
SATO Mikio | Theory of Hyperfunctions and Its Applications | 1976 |
SUZUKI Tomoji | Protein Chemistry on Kinin System and Its Control Mechanism | 1979 |
ISHIMOTO Masao | Reasonable Grounds of Liability without Fault: A Study of Comparative Law on "Culpa levissima" in Roman Law | 1984 |
ARATA Yoshiaki | Development of Ultra High Energy Density Heat Sources and Their Application to Heat Processing | 1985 |
YAMAMURA Yuichi | Cell-mediated Immunity and its Modulation | 1985 |
TOYOSHIMA Kumao | Studies on src-Family Oncogenes | 1987 |
MORIMOTO Nobuo | Discovery of a New Type of Mechanism for Solid-Solution Formation in Minerals | 1994 |
FUJITA Hiroshi | In Situ Observation of Plastic Deformation of Metals Using High Voltage Electron Microscopy (HVEM) | 1994 |
SUGA Hiroshi | Phase Transitions and Relaxation Processes in Condensed Phases | 1995 |
KANAMORI Junjiro | Theory of Ferromagnetic Transition Metal Alloys | 1996 |
IKEHARA Morio | Synthesis and Functional Studies on Nucleic Acids-Synthetic c-Ha-ras Gene and Related Subjects (Joint Research) | 1996 |
OHTSUKA Eiko | ||
KUMAGAI Nobuaki | Basic Research on the Development of New Theories of Electromagnetic Waves and their Applications to Guided Wave Transmission | 1997 |
KITAMURA Yukihiko | Development and Malignant Transformation of Mast Cells and Interstitial Cells of Cajal through KIT Receptors | 2005 |
MATAGA Noboru | Studies on Molecular Interactions and Chemical Reaction Dynamics of Photo-excited Molecules | 2006 |
OHTAKE Fumio | Inequality in Japan | 2008 |
HASEGAWA Akira | Discovery of Optical Soliton Properties in Fibers and of Self-organization of Plasma Turbulence | 2008 |
MURAI Shinji | Skeletal Formation and Modification of Organic Compounds via Transition Metal-Based Molecular Catalysts | 2010 |
MURAHASHI Shun-ichi | ||
TANIGUCHI Naoyuki | Pioneering Accomplishments in Glycobiology, Especially on the Significance of N-glycans in Disease | 2011 |
FUTAI Masamitsu | Studies on the Synthesis and Cellular Use of Biological Energy | 2012 |
SAKAGUCHI Shimon | Regulation of Immune Response by Regulatory T Cells | 2012 |
NAGASAWA Takashi | Elucidation of Microenvironments Essential for the Maintenance of Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Hematopoiesis and Bone | 2019 |
*Award to mark Crown Prince Akihito's marriage
Medal with Purple Ribbon
Name | Affiliation at the time of winning a medal | Year |
|---|---|---|
MATSUKAWA Tatsuo | School of Engineering | 1959 |
CHITANI Toshizo | School of Science | 1965 |
TERAZAWA Kazuo | School of Engineering | 1970 |
FUJINO Tsunesaburo | Research Institute for Microbial Diseases | 1971 |
SUGATA Eiji | School of Engineering | 1971 |
FUSHIMI Koji | School of Science | 1973 |
UEMATSU Tokio | School of Engineering Science | 1974 |
YOSHINAGA Hiroshi | School of Engineering | 1975 |
KAMAHORA Juntaro | Research Institute for Microbial Diseases | 1975 |
SUZUKI Tomoji | Institute for Protein Research | 1976 |
MIYAJI Toru | Faculty of Medicine | 1977 |
YUKAWA Yasuhide | Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research | 1977 |
KUMAGAI Hisao | School of Economics | 1978 |
OKUNO Yoshiomi | Research Institute for Microbial Diseases | 1978 |
KINOSHITA Kazuo | School of Economics | 1983 |
ISHIMARU Toshiyasu | Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research | 1984 |
SAKURAI Hiroshi | Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research | 1985 |
OSAWA Fumio | School of Engineering Science | 1985 |
HASHIMOTO Hatsujiro | School of Engineering | 1985 |
IKEHARA Morio | School of Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1986 |
MANABE Hisao | Faculty of Medicine | 1987 |
NAMBA Susumu | School of Engineering Science | 1988 |
SHIOKAWA Jiro | School of Engineering | 1988 |
INADA Ken-ichi | Institute of Social and Economic Research | 1989 |
MISUMI Juji | School of Human Sciences | 1989 |
KOIZUMI Mitsue | Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research | 1990 |
MORIMOTO Nobuo | Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research | 1990 |
DATE Muneyuki | School of Science | 1991 |
YAMANAKA Chiyoe | School of Engineering | 1992 |
YOSHIMORI Akio | School of Engineering Science | 1992 |
TSUBOMURA Hiroshi | School of Engineering Science | 1993 |
FUJITA Hiroshi | School of Engineering | 1993 |
HARA Tomiyuki | School of Science | 1994 |
MATAGA Noboru | School of Engineering Science | 1995 |
HAMAKAWA Yoshihiro | School of Engineering Science | 1995 |
YAMANE Toshimi | School of Engineering | 1996 |
MIYAMOTO Sigenori | School of Science | 1996 |
MURATA Ichiro | School of Science | 1996 |
KAWASHIMA Yasunaru | Faculty of Medicine | 1997 |
SONODA Noboru | School of Engineering | 1997 |
MATSUBARA Ken-ichi | Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology | 1997 |
MORITA Zen-ichiro | School of Engineering | 1998 |
KYOGOKU Yoshimasa | Institute for Protein Research | 1998 |
SHIOBARA Tsutomu | School of Human Sciences | 1998 |
NAKAMURA Akira | School of Science | 1998 |
SHINODA Jun-ichi | School of Letters | 1999 |
SONODA Takao | Faculty of Medicine | 1999 |
YAMAZAKI Masakazu | School of Letters | 1999 |
ARIMOTO Suguru | School of Engineering Science | 2000 |
AOKI Tamotsu | School of Human Sciences | 2000 |
KITAMURA Yukihiko | Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences | 2001 |
INOKI Takenori | School of Economics | 2002 |
KAWAI Tomoji | Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research | 2003 |
TAKAI Yoshimi | Faculty of Medicine | 2003 |
TAKEDA Sachiko | Osaka University of Foreign Studies | 2003 |
WASHIDA Kiyokazu | School of Letters | 2004 |
AKIRA Shizuo | Research Institute for Microbial Diseases | 2005 |
TANIGUCHI Naoyuki | Faculty of Medicine | 2005 |
HIRANO Toshio | Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences | 2006 |
HARADA Akira | School of Science | 2006 |
NAKAMURA Toshikazu | Graduate School of Medicine | 2006 |
MATSUZAWA Yuji | Faculty of Medicine | 2006 |
KAWATA Satoshi | Graduate School of Engineering | 2007 |
ONUKI Yoshichika | Graduate School of Science | 2008 |
MASUHARA Hiroshi | Graduate School of Engineering | 2008 |
NAKAJIMA Hideo | Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research | 2009 |
SAKAGUCHI Shimon | Kyoto University | 2009 |
TONO Haruyuki | School of Letters | 2010 |
MORITA Seizo | Graduate School of Engineering | 2011 |
NISHIO Shojiro | Graduate School of Information Science and Technology | 2011 |
FUKUZUMI Shunichi | Graduate School of Engineering | 2011 |
HANAOKA Fumio | Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences | 2012 |
KITAOKA Yoshio | Graduate School of Engineering Science | 2012 |
KUBO Shiro | Graduate School of Engineering | 2012 |
HAMADA Hiroshi | Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences | 2014 |
YONEDA Yoshihiro | Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences | 2015 |
KOMIZO Yuuichi | Joining and Welding Research Institute | 2017 |
KINOSHITA Taroh | Research Institute for Microbial Diseases | 2018 |
DOME Takuo | Graduate School of Economics | 2019 |
YOSHIMORI Tamotsu | Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences | 2019 |
SAWA Yoshiki | Graduate School of Medicine | 2020 |
AKITA Shigeru | Graduate School of Humanities | 2022 |
ITOZAKI Hideo | Graduate School of Engineering Science | 2023 |
SEKIGUCHI Kiyotoshi | Institute for Protein Research | 2023 |
CHATANI Naoto | Research Center for Environmental Preservation | 2023 |
YAMAUCHI Kazuto | Graduate School of Engineering | 2023 |
KODAMA Ryosuke | Graduate School of Engineering | 2023 |
YAMAMURA Kazuya | Graduate School of Engineering | 2024 |
MIYAJI Atsuko | Graduate School of Engineering | 2024 |
NISHIDA Kohji | Graduate School of Medicine | 2025 |
KUMANOGOH Atsushi | Graduate School of Medicine | 2025 |