Kyoto Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of Kyoto

• Yoshinori Ohsumi (1974) - Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work on autophagy.
• Shinzo Abe (1977) - Former Prime Minister of Japan, known for his economic policies.
• Takaaki Kajita (1981) - Nobel Laureate in Physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations.
• Hideki Shirakawa (1966) - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for the discovery and development of conductive polymers.
• Yasunari Kawabata (1924) - Nobel Laureate in Literature, the first Japanese to receive this honor.
• Junichiro Koizumi (1967) - Former Prime Minister of Japan, known for his postal privatization reforms.
• Masatoshi Koshiba (1955) - Nobel Laureate in Physics for pioneering contributions to astrophysics.
• Yoichiro Nambu (1952) - Nobel Laureate in Physics for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.
• Isamu Akasaki (1964) - Nobel Laureate in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes.
• Osamu Shimomura (1951) - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.