HONOR

Awarded since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, for "significant contributions to the progress of science, the development of civilization, and the enrichment and elevation of the human spirit".

1985	Rudolf Emil Kalman, Olivier Messiaen, Claude Shannon
1986	George Evelyn Hutchinson, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, Isamu Noguchi
1987	Morris Cohen, Jan Hendrik Oort, Andrzej Wajda
1988	Noam Chomsky, John McCarthy, Paul Thieme
1989	John Cage, Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand, Amos E. Joel, Jr.
1990	Sydney Brenner, Jane Goodall, Renzo Piano
1991	Peter Brook, Edward Lorenz, Michael Szwarc
1992	Yasutomi Nishizuka, Karl Popper, Maurice Vincent Wilkes
1993	William Donald Hamilton, Jack S. Kilby, Witold Lutoslawski
1994	Akira Kurosawa, Paul C. Lauterbur, André Weil
1995	George William Gray, Chushiro Hayashi, Roy Lichtenstein
1996	Mario Capecchi, Donald E. Knuth, Willard Van Orman Quine
1997	Federico Faggin, Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr., Daniel Hunt Janzen, Stanley Mazor, Masatoshi Shima, Iannis Xenakis
1998	Kiyoshi Itō, Nam June Paik, Kurt Wüthrich
1999	Maurice Béjart, W. David Kingery, Walter Heinrich Munk
2000	Walter Jakob Gehring, Antony Hoare, Paul Ric�ur
2001	Zhores I. Alferov, Izuo Hayashi, György Ligeti, Morton B. Panish, John Maynard Smith
2002	Tadao Ando, Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov, Leroy Hood
2003	Eugene Parker, George M. Whitesides, Tamao Yoshida
2004	Jürgen Habermas, Alan Kay, Alfred G. Knudson
2005	Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George H. Heilmeier, Simon Asher Levin
2006	Hirotugu Akaike, Leonard Herzenberg, Issey Miyake
2007	Pina Bausch, Hiroo Inokuchi, Hiroo Kanamori

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