HOKUDAI Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of HOKUDAI

• Takeshi Uchiyamada (1969) - Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation, instrumental in the development of the Prius.
• Shinya Yamanaka (1987) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012) for his work on induced pluripotent stem cells.
• Yoichiro Nambu (1952) - Nobel Prize in Physics (2008) for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.
• Toshihide Maskawa (1962) - Nobel Prize in Physics (2008) for his work on the theory of quark mixing.
• Masatoshi Koshiba (1955) - Nobel Prize in Physics (2002) for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, particularly in the detection of cosmic neutrinos.
• Isamu Akasaki (1964) - Nobel Prize in Physics (2014) for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes.
• Takashi Negishi (1953) - Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2010) for his analysis of markets with asymmetric information.
• Hideki Shirakawa (1966) - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000) for the discovery and development of conductive polymers.
• Osamu Shimomura (1951) - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2008) for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.
• Shuji Nakamura (1979) - Nobel Prize in Physics (2014) for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes.