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International Prize for biology

Past Recipients/Presentation Ceremony (Acceptance Address, Process of Selection)

※Please note that the following affiliations of the award recipients are of those they were awarded.

List of Past Recipients

2023 (39th)

Recipient : Dr. Richard Durbin / Al Kindi Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
Research field : Biology of Genomes
　
About the 39th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2022 (38th)

Recipient : Dr. TSUKAMOTO Katsumi / Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Research field : Biology of Fishes
　
About the 38th International Prize for Biology Recipient
37th and 38th Presentation Ceremony, Acceptance Addresses, Selection Processes
Booklet of 37th and 38th Presentation Ceremony

2021 (37th)

Recipient : Dr. Timothy Douglas White / Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley
Research field : Biology of Human Evolution
　
About the 37th International Prize for Biology Recipient
37th and 38th Presentation Ceremony, Acceptance Addresses, Selection Processes
Booklet of 37th and 38th Presentation Ceremony

2020 (36th)

Recipient : Dr. SHINOZAKI Kazuo / Senior Advisor, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), Japan
Research field : Biology of Environmental Responses
　
About the 36th International Prize for Biology Recipient
36th Presentation Ceremony, Acceptance Address, Selection Process
An Address by His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Akishino
Booklet of 36th Prize

2019 (35th)

Recipient : Dr. Naomi Ellen Pierce / Hessel Professor of Biology and Curator of Lepidoptera, Harvard University, USA
Research field : Biology of Insects
　
About the 35th International Prize for Biology Recipient
35th Presentation Ceremony, Acceptance Address, Selection Process
Booklet of 35th Presentation Ceremony

2018 (34th)

Recipient : Dr. Andrew Herbert Knoll / Fisher Professor of Natural History, Harvard University, USA
Research field : Paleontology
　
About the 34th International Prize for Biology Recipient
34th Presentation Ceremony, Acceptance Address, Selection Process
Booklet of 34th Presentation Ceremony

2017 (33rd)

Recipient : Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell / Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, USA
Research field : Marine Biology
　
About the 33rd International Prize for Biology Recipient
33rd Presentation Ceremony, Acceptance Address, Selection Process
Booklet of 33th Presentation Ceremony

2016 (32nd)

Recipient : Dr. Stephen Philip Hubbell / Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles,USA
Research field : Biology of Biodiversity
　
About the 32nd International Prize for Biology Recipient
32nd Presentation Ceremony, Acceptance Address, Selection Process
Booklet of 32th Presentation Ceremony

2015 (31st)

Recipient : Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi / Honorary Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Research field : Cell Biology
　
About the 31st International Prize for Biology Recipient
31st Presentation Ceremony, Acceptance Address, Selection Process
Booklet of 31th Presentation Ceremony
Interview with the Recipient

2014 (30th)

Recipient : Prof. Sir Peter Crane FRS / Professor, Yale University, U.S.A
Research field : Systematic Biology and Taxonomy
　
About the 30th International Prize for Biology Recipient
30th Presentation Ceremony, Acceptance Address, Selection Process
Booklet of 30th Presentation Ceremony

2013 (29th)

Recipient : Dr. Joseph Felsenstein / Professor, University of Washington, U.S.A
Research field : Biology of Evolution
　
About the 29th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2012 (28th)

Recipient : Dr. Joseph Altman / Professor Emeritus, Purdue University, U.S.A
Research field : Neurobiology
　
About the 28th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2011 (27th)

Recipient : Dr. Eric Harris Davidson / Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A
Research field : Developmental Biology
　
About the 27th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2010 (26th)

Recipient : Dr. Nancy Ann Moran / William H. Fleming Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, U.S.A
Research field : Biology of Symbiosis
　
About the 26th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2009 (25th)

Recipient : Dr. Winslow Russell Briggs / Professor Emetitus, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, U.S.A.
Research field : Biology of Sensing
　
About the 25th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2008 (24th)

Recipient : Dr. George David Tilman / Regents’ Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Research field : Ecology
　
About the 24th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2007 (23rd)

Recipient : Dr. David Swenson Hogness / Munzer Professor of Developmental Biologyand of Biochemistry, Emeritus Stanford University School of Medicine, U.S.A.
Research field : Genetics
　
About the 23rd International Prize for Biology Recipient

2006 (22nd)

Recipient : Dr. Serge Daan / Professor, Niko Tinbergen Chair in Behavioral Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Research field : Chronobiology
　
About the 22nd International Prize for Biology Recipient

2005 (21st)

Recipient : Prof. Nam-Hai Chua / Professor, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, U.S.A.
Research field : Structual Biology in Fine Structure, Morphology and Morphogenesis
　
About the 21st International Prize for Biology Recipient

2004 (20th)

Recipient : Dr. Thomas Cavalier-Smith / Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, U.K.
Research field : Systematic Biology and Taxonomy
　
About the 20th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2003 (19th)

Recipient : Dr. Shinya Inoué / Distinguished Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, U.S.A.
Research field : Cell Biology
　
About the 19th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2002 (18th)

Recipient : Dr. Masatoshi Nei / Evan Pugh Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.
Research field : Biology of Evolution
　
About the 18th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2001 (17th)

Recipient : Dr. Harry Blackmore Whittington / Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, UK
Research field : Paleontology
　
About the 17th International Prize for Biology Recipient

2000 (16th)

Recipient : Prof. Seymour Benzer / James Griffin Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Research field : Developmental Biology
　
About the 16th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1999 (15th)

Recipient : Prof. Setsuro Ebashi / Chair of the Section II, The Japan Academy Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research field : Animal Physiology
　
About the 15th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1998 (14th)

Recipient : Prof. Otto Thomas Solbrig / Bussey Professor of Biology, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Research field : The Biology of Biodiversity
　
About the 14th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1997 (13th)

Recipient : Prof. Elliot Martin Meyerowitz / Professor, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Research field : Plant Science
　
About the 13th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1996 (12th)

Recipient : Prof. Ryuzo Yanagimachi / Professor, Medical School, University of Hawaii, U.S.A.
Research field : Biology of Reproduction
　
About the 12th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1995 (11th)

Recipient : Prof. Ian Read Gibbons / Professor, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, U.S.A.
Research field : Cell Biology
　
About the 11th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1994 (10th)

Recipient : Prof. Ernst Mayr / Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Research field : Systematic Biology and Taxonomy
　
About the 10th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1993 (9th)

Recipient : Prof. Edward Osborne Wilson / Professor of Science and Curator in Entomology Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Research field : Ecology
　
About the 9th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1992 (8th)

Recipient : Prof. Knut Schmidt-Nielsen / James B. Duke Professor of Physiology, Duke University, U.S.A.
Research field : Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
　
About the 8th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1991 (7th)

Recipient : Dr. Marshall Davidson Hatch / Chief Research Scientist, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, Australia
Research field : Functional Biology of Plants
　
About the 7th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1990 (6th)

Recipient : Prof. Masakazu Konishi / Bing Professor, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Research field : Behavioral Biology
　
About the 6th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1989 (5th)

Recipient : Sir Eric James Denton / Retired Director, Marine Biological Association Laboratory, Plymouth, U.K.
Research field : Marine Biology
　
About the 5th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1988 (4th)

Recipient : Dr. Motoo Kimura / Professor Emeritus, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Research field : Population Biology
　
About the 4th International Prize for Biology Recipient

1987 (3rd)

Recipient : Sir John Bertrand Gurdon / John Humphrey Plummer Professor, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Research field : Developmental Biology
　
About the 3rd International Prize for Biology Recipient

1986 (2nd)

Recipient : Dr. Peter Hamilton Raven / Director, Missouri Botanical Garden, U.S.A.
Research field : Systematic Biology and Taxonomy
　
About the 2nd International Prize for Biology Recipient

1985 (1st)

Recipient : Prof. Edred John Henry Corner / Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Research field : Taxonomy or Systematic Biology
　
About the 1st International Prize for Biology Recipient