Asahi Prize
Encyclopedia
The Asahi Prize is a prize
awarded by the Japan
ese 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.
Prize
A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. Official prizes often involve monetary rewards as well as the fame that comes with them...
awarded by the Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese newspaper the Asahi shimbun
Asahi Shimbun
The is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...
for achievement in scholarship or the arts
The arts
The arts are a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. It is a broader term than "art", which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts. The arts encompass visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts – music, theatre, dance and...
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
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
. It is considered as one of the most prestigious prizes presented by a nongovernmental entity.
Recipients
- Shoichi SakataShoichi Sakatawas a Japanese academic and physicist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the structure of the atom. He proposed the Sakata model, which was an early precursor to the quark model....
, physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
, 1948 - Motosaburo MasuyamaMotosaburo Masuyamawas a Japanese statistician who championed the ideas of R.A. Fisher and went on to influence the fields of quality control and biometrics.-Life:Born Otaru, Hokkaidō, Masuyama graduated in physics from the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1937 and earned his doctorate in 1943...
, statisticianStatisticianA statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...
, 1948 - Kenkichi IwasawaKenkichi IwasawaKenkichi Iwasawa was a Japanese mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory.Iwasawa was born in Shinshuku-mura, a town near Kiryū, in Gunma Prefecture...
, mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, 1959 - Eiichi GotoEiichi GotoEiichi Goto was a Japanese computer scientist, the builder of one of the first general-purpose computers in Japan.-Biography:Goto was born in January 26, 1931 in Shibuya, Tokyo. After attending Seikei High School he went to Tokyo University, where he graduated in 1953...
, physicist, 1959. - Yozo MatsushimaYozo Matsushimawas a Japanese mathematician.-Early life:Matsushima was born on February 11, 1921 in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He studied at Osaka Imperial University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in September 1942. At Osaka, he was taught by mathematicians Kenjiro Shoda...
, mathematician, 1962 - Shinichiro Tomonaga, physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
, 1946 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, novelist
- Izuo HayashiIzuo Hayashi' was a Japanese physicist.Hayashi was born in Tokyo in 1922 and graduated from the Department of Physics, University of Tokyo in 1946. He then worked as assistant professor at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the same university and defended his PhD in 1962...
, physicist, 1986 - Donald KeeneDonald KeeneDonald Lawrence Keene is a Japanologist, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture. Keene was University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years...
, writer, 1997 - Hirotsugu AkaikeHirotsugu Akaikewas a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s he formulated an information criterion for model identification which has become known as the Akaike information criterion.-Awards:...
, statistician - Akira FujishimaAkira Fujishimais a Japanese chemist, professor emeritus, University of Tokyo known for significant contributions to the discovery and research of photocatalytic and superhydrophilic properties of titanium dioxide .-Career and research:...
, chemist, 2003
External links
- Contribution to Society page at Asahi shibun site