Asahi Prize
The Asahi Prize is a prize awarded by the Japanese newspaper the Asahi shimbun for achievement in scholarship or the arts that has made a contribution to culture or society. It was established in 1929. Many recipients of this prize have later been honoured with a Nobel Prize. It is considered as one of the most prestigious prizes presented by a nongovernmental entity.
Recipients
- Tsubouchi Shōyō, 1929, author, translator
- Toyotaro Suhara (Hotaro Suhara), 1929, avionics engineer, inventor ultra-high-speed photography[1]
- Seison Maeda, 1929, artist,[2]
- Shoichi Sakata, physicist, 1948
- Motosaburo Masuyama, statistician, 1948
- Kenkichi Iwasawa, mathematician, 1959
- Eiichi Goto, physicist, 1959.
- Yozo Matsushima, mathematician, 1962
- Shinichiro Tomonaga, physicist, 1946
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, novelist
- Izuo Hayashi, physicist, 1986[3]
- Donald Keene, writer, 1997
- Hirotsugu Akaike, statistician
- Kazuya Kato, mathematician, 2002
- Akira Fujishima, chemist, 2003
References
- ^ "見事・画面に捉えたピッチヤーの秘訣 : 栖原博士の特超高速撮影機 : 物理現象に驚く偉功 (The secret of dynamic airflow captured on the screen - characteristics of Dr. Suhara's ultra-high-speed photo machine )" (in Japanese). University of Kobe.
- ^ See references at the Seison Maeda article in the Japanese Wikipedia, in Japanese
- ^ Izuo Hayashi. Inamori Foundation
External links
- Contribution to Society page at Asahi shibun site
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