The Kyoto Prize is the highest private
award in
Japan, and is handed out annually to people who have made
noteworthy accomplishments. The
Inamori Foundation selects nominators for three different categories (
Advanced Technology,
Basic Sciences and
Arts and
Philosophy), and these groups nominate those prescreened candidates whom they think deserve the prize. The prize includes a
certificate, a gold
medal, 50 million
yen (about US $400,000) and more than enough
dignity to fill a large swimming pool (the last of these simply because the Kyoto Prize is the
Japanese equivalent of a
Nobel prize).
Past winners include
Donald Knuth at
Stanford in 1996 for lifetime achievement in his studies in
computer science, and
Edward Lorenz in 1991 for the mathematic (well,
chaos mostly) modelling of
weather systems.
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References
The Kyoto Prize Laureates Selection. <http://www.inamori-f.or.jp/KyotoPrizes/contents_e/co_scr.html>
Salisbury, David. Donald Knuth Wins Kyoto Prize. Stanford: Stanford Today Online, 1996. <http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/stanfordtoday/ed/9609/9609smf201.shtml>
Lorenz Receives 1991 Kyoto Prize. Cambridge: MIT News Office, 1991. <http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1991/24996/24998.html>