1949: Hideki Yukawa – “for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces.”
1965: Shin’ichirō Tomonaga – “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.”
1973: Leo Esaki – “for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.”
2002: Masatoshi Koshiba – “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos.”
2008: Yoichiro Nambu (ディアスポラ、米国籍) – “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.”
2008: Makoto Kobayashi – “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.”
2008: Toshihide Maskawa – “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.”
2014: Isamu Akasaki – “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.”
2014: Hiroshi Amano – “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.”
2014: Shuji Nakamura (ディアスポラ、米国籍) – “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.”
2015: Takaaki Kajita – “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.”
2021: Syukuro Manabe (ディアスポラ、米国籍) – “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.”
化学 (8人)
1981: Kenichi Fukui – “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions.”
2000: Hideki Shirakawa – “for their discovery and development of conductive polymers.”
2001: Ryōji Noyori – “for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.”
2002: Koichi Tanaka – “for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules… and for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules.”
2008: Osamu Shimomura – “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.”
1968: Yasunari Kawabata – “for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.”
1994: Kenzaburō Ōe – “who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.”
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro (ディアスポラ、英国籍) – “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”
平和 (2人/団体)
1974: Eisaku Satō – “for his contribution to stabilize conditions in the Pacific rim area and for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.”
2024: Nihon Hidankyo (団体) – “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.”