| Year | Field | Photo | Name (b.-d.) | Achievements |
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| [Nationality]Affiliation (Titles at the time) | ||||
| 2025 | Materials Science and Production |
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Prof. Russell Dean Dupuis (1947-) |
Development of metalorganic chemical vapor deposition technology for compound semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices, and pioneering contribution to its large-scale commercialization |
| [USA] Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology | ||||
| Biological Production, Ecology/Environment |
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Prof. Carlos M. Duarte (1960-) |
Contribution to our understanding of marine ecosystems in a changing Earth, especially through pioneering research on Blue Carbon | |
| [Spain] Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | ||||
| 2024 | Resources, Energy, the Environment, and Social Infrastructure |
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Prof. Sir Brian J. Hoskins (1945-) |
Establishment of a scientific foundation for understanding and predicting extreme weather events |
| [UK] Professor, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
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Prof. John Michael Wallace (1940-) |
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| [USA] Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
| Medical Science and Pharmaceutical Science |
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Prof. Ronald M. Evans (1949-) |
Discovery of the nuclear hormone receptor family and its application to drug development | |
| [USA] Professor, Director of Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
| 2023 | Electronics, Information, and Communication |
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Prof. Masataka Nakazawa（1952-） |
Distinguished contributions to global long-distance, high-capacity optical fiber network through the development of semiconductor laser pumped optical amplifier |
| [Japan] Distinguished Professor/Specially Appointed Professor, Tohoku University
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| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
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Mr. Kazuo Hagimoto（1955-） |
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| [Japan] Principal Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
| Life Sciences |
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Prof. Gero Miesenböck（1965-） |
The development of methods that use genetically addressable light-sensitive membrane proteins to unravel neural circuit function | |
| [Austria] Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
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Prof. Karl Deisseroth（1971-） |
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| [USA] Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Psychiatry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University |
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| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
| 2022 | Materials and Production |
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Prof. Katalin Karikó (1955-) |
For pioneering research contributing to the development of mRNA vaccines |
| [Hungary, USA] Senior Vice President, BioNTech SE Adjunct Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Professor, University of Szeged |
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| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
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Prof. Drew Weissman (1959-) |
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| [USA] Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Director Penn Institute for RNA Innovation |
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| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
| Biological Production, Ecology/Environment |
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Prof. Christopher Field (1953-) |
For outstanding contributions to estimation of global biospheric productivity and climate change science using advanced formulas based on observation | |
| [USA] Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
| 2021 | Resources, Energy, Environment, Social Infrastructure |
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Prof. Martin A. Green (1948-) |
Development of High-Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaic Devices |
| [Australia] Professor, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
| Medical Science, Medicinal Science |
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Prof. Bert Vogelstein (1949-) |
For their pioneering work in conceptualizing a multi-step model of carcinogenesis and its application and impact on improving cancer diagnosis and therapy | |
| [USA] Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
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Dr. Robert A. Weinberg (1942-) |
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| [USA] Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
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| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
| 2020 | Electronics, Information, and Communication |
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Prof. Robert G. Gallager (1931-) |
Pioneering contribution to information and coding theory |
| [USA] Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) | ||||
| Life Science |
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Dr. Svante Pääbo (1955-) |
Pioneering contributions to paleoanthropology through decoding ancient human genome sequences | |
| [Sweden] Director, Department of Evolutionary Genetics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | ||||
| Lecture (Youtube) |
