Japanese engineer and researcher Takashi Mimura (L), Australian plant physiologist Graham Farquhar (C) and American musicologist Richard Taruskin (R) pose for photos during the Kyoto Prize awarding ceremony in Kyoto, Japan, on Nov. 10, 2017. Three scholars were awarded the Kyoto Prize at a ceremony in the Kyoto International Conference Center Friday in recognition of their great achievements in the fields of advanced technology, basic sciences, and arts, respectively. (Xinhua/Hua Yi)
KYOTO, Japan, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Three scholars were awarded the Kyoto Prize at a ceremony in the Kyoto International Conference Center Friday in recognition of their great achievements in the fields of advanced technology, basic sciences, and arts, respectively.
As Japan's highest private award for global achievement, the Kyoto Prize has been presented annually since 1985 by Inamori Foundation, to encourage those who have contributed significantly to advanced technology, basic sciences, and arts and philosophy.
Japanese engineer and researcher Takashi Mimura was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for his "invention of the High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) and its development for the progress of information and communications technology," according to a press release by the Inamori Foundation.
The Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences was given to Australian plant physiologist Graham Farquhar, for his "development of process-based models of photosynthesis and their contributions to the science of global environmental changes."
Richard Taruskin, a musicologist from the United States, won the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, for transforming contemporary perspectives on music through historical research and essays "that defy conventional critical paradigms."
Each laureate was presented with a diploma, a medal and prize money of 50 million yen (about 440, 000 U.S. dollars) at the ceremony.
