Research Report 　 　 　 Prof. Serge Daan Professor, Groningen University Host Institute: Hokkaido University July, 2009 Prof. Antoine Compagnon Professor, College de France Host Institute: Kyoto University April, 2009 Dr.James D. Watson Chancellor Emeritus, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Host Institute: National Institutes of Natural Sciences October, 2008 Prof.Joan A. Steitz Professor, Yale University Host Institute: National Institutes of Natural Sciences October, 2008 Prof.Maxim Kontsevicch Professor, I.H.E.S. France Host Institute: Keio University October, 2008 Prof. Serge Daan Professor, Groningen University Host Institute: Hokkaido University July, 2008 Prof. Tsung-Dao Lee University Professor, Columbia University Host Institute: KEK May, 2007 Prof. Pierre Marcel Paul Toubert Honorary professor, College de France Host Institute: Nagoya University May, 2007 Prof. Gerardus 't Hooft Professor, Utrecht University, Netherlands Nobel Prize in Physics (1996) Host Institute: Nagoya University November, 2006 Prof. Yoichiro Nambu Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, USA Wolf Prize (1994/95) Host Institute: Kyoto University October, 2006 Prof. Robin Warren Emeritus Professor, The University of Western Australia, Australia Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2005) Host Institute:Oita University June, 2006 April, 2007 Prof. Barry Marshall Professor, The University of Western Australia, Australia Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2005) Host Institute:Oita University November, 2006 Prof. Takashi Asano Professor Emeritus, University of California at Davis, USA Stockholm Water Prize (2001) Host Institute:Public Works Research Institute September, 2006 June, 2007 January, 2008 Dr. Alexei A. Abrikosov Distinguished Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Nobel Prize in Physics (2003) Host Institute: University of Tsukuba October, 2005 Prof. Hiroo Kanamori Professor, California Institute of Technology, USA Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship (1993) Host Institute: Kyoto University October, 2005 April, 2006 Prof. Wilfried H Brutsaert Professor, Cornell University, USA Jule G. Charney Award (2003) Host Institute:Tsukuba University June, 2005 April, 2006 May, 2007 Prof. Gilbert Stork Emeritus Professor, Columbia University, USA Wolf Prize, Israel (1996) Host Institute: Tokyo Institute of Technology September, 2005 Prof. Martin D. Kruskal Professor, Rutgers University, USA Daniel Heineman Prize in Mathematical Physics (1983) Host Institute: Tokyo University December, 2004 Prof. Kurt Lambeck Professor, The Australian National University Tage Erlander Prize (2001) Host Institute: Tokyo University February, 2005 Dudley Robert Herschbach Frank B. Baird Jr., Professor of Science, Harvard University, U.S.A Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986) Host Institute:Osaka University October, 2006 Prof. Peter Agre Professor, Johns Hopkins University Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2003) Host Institute: Niigata University January, 2005 Sir Dr. Prof. John Walker Professoor, University of Cambridge Novel Prize for Chemistry (1997) Host Institute: Toyo University November, 2004 Dr. Fritz Melchers Professor, University of Basel Robert Koch Award (1996) Host Institute: Tokyo University March, 2005 November, 2004 Prof. Henri B. Kagan Professor, Université de Paris-Sud Tetranhedron Prize (1996) Host Institute: Nagoya University Dr. Heinrich Hans ROHRER Researcher, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Nobel Prize in Physics (1986) Host Institute: Tohoku University October, 2003 Dr. Icko Iben Jr. Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois Member of United State National Academy of Science Henry Norris Russell Lecturer, American Astronomical Society (1989） Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society London (1990） Host Institute: Hokkaido University July, 2004 July, 2003 Dr.Yoshio Masui Professor, University of Toronto Albert Lasker Award (1998) Host Institute: Konan University November, 2004 September, 2003 January, 2003 Sir Harold Kroto Professor, University of Sussex Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996) Host Institute : Toyo University March, 2003 November, 2003 Dr. Sheldon Lee Glashow Professor, Boston University Nobel Prize in Physics (1979) Host Institute : High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Dr.Amartya Kumar Sen Master, Trinity College, Cambridge University Nobel Prize in Economics (1998) Host Institute : Ritsumeikan University June, 2003 July, 2004 Dr.Ferid Murad Professor and Chairman, University of Texas Houston Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998) Host Institute : Osaka University Dr.Louis J. Ignarro Professor, University of California Los Angeles Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998) Host Institute : Nagoya University February, 2004 May, 2005 Dr.Jean-Marie Lehn Professor, Louis Pasteur University Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1987) Host Institute : Kyushu University Dr.Marc Fumaroli Professor, Collège de France Balzan Prize (2001) Host Institute : Kyoto University Dr. Aaron Ciechanover Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Medicine Albert Lasker Award (2000) Host Institute: Osaka City University January, 2005 November, 2003 Dr. Alan J．Heeger Professor, Pennsylvania University Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000) Host Institute: Tsukuba University Dr. Alan G．MacDiarmid Professor, California University at Santa Barbara Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000) Host Institute: Tsukuba University