Honda Prize

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The Honda Prize is awarded by the Honda Foundation.{{Cite web |url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i9/Gabor-Somorjai-Awarded-Honda-Prize.html |title=Gabor Somorjai Awarded Honda Prize: Chemical & Engineering News |website=cen.acs.org |publisher=American Chemical Society |location=U.S. |access-date=2019-11-16}}{{Cite web |url=https://news.usc.edu/30620/antonio-damasio-wins-honda-prize/ |title=Antonio Damasio Wins Honda Prize |date=2010-09-20 |website=USC News |publisher=University of Southern California |location=California, U.S. |access-date=2019-11-16}}{{Cite web |url=https://engineering.jhu.edu/news/2015/09/29/medical-robotics-pioneer-russell-h-taylor-to-receive-2015-honda-prize/ |title=Medical robotics pioneer Russell H. Taylor to receive 2015 Honda Prize |date=2015-09-29 |website=Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |location=Maryland, U.S. |access-date=2019-11-16}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hondafoundation.jp/en/winner.html|title=Past Laureates {{!}} HONDA FOUNDATION|website=www.hondafoundation.jp|access-date=2019-08-18}}{{cite web|url=https://www.stofficetokyo.ch/sites/default/files/2019-02/List%20of%20Past%20Laureates.pdf|title=List of Past Laureates of Honda Prize|website=stofficetokyo.ch}} It is awarded for "the efforts of an individual or group who contribute new ideas which may lead the next generation in the field of ecotechnology". It is sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize in Technology" since it has put a spotlight on achievements in a variety of fields based on a wide perspective in the future, including two Turing-awarded artificial intelligence accomplishments.{{cite web|url=https://www.oden.utexas.edu/about/news/honda-prize-honors-tinsley-oden-for-establishing-computational-mechanics/|title=Honda Prize honors Tinsley Oden for establishing computational mechanics|website=utexas.edu|date=21 November 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://global.honda/newsroom/news/2005/c050809b-eng.html|title=Honda Foundation Announces The Honda Prize For The Year 2005 Will be Awarded To Dr. Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.|website=global.honda|date=9 August 2005}}{{cite web|url=https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/geoffrey-hinton-pioneer-deep-learning-wins-2019-honda-prize|title=Geoffrey Hinton, pioneer in deep learning, wins 2019 Honda Prize|website=utoronto.ca|date=20 September 2019}}

Prize

The prize consists of a diploma, medal, and a reward of 10 million yen.

List of recipients

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!Year

!Name

!Nationality

1980

|{{ill|Gunnar Hambraeus|sv}}

|Sweden

1981

|Harold Chestnut

|USA

1982

|John F. Coales

|UK

1983

|Ilya Prigogine

|Belgium

1984

|Umberto Colombo

|Italy

1985

|Carl Sagan

|USA

1986

|Jun-ichi Nishizawa

|Japan

1987

|Jean Dausset

|France

1988

|Paolo Maria Fasella

|Italy

1989

|Lotfi A. Zadeh

|USA

1990

|Frei Otto

|Germany

1991

|M. S. Swaminathan

|India

1992

|Hermann Haken

|Germany

1993

|Koki Horikoshi

|Japan

1994

|Benoit Mandelbrot

|France-USA

1995

|{{ill|Åke E. Andersson|sv}}

|Sweden

1996

|Bruce Ames

|USA

1997

|Günter Petzow

|Germany

1998

|Hubert Curien

|France

1999

|Aleksandra Kornhauser

|Slovenia

2000

|Shuji Nakamura

|Japan

2001

|Donald Mackay

|Canada

2002

|Barry John Cooper

|UK

2003

|Ken-ichi Mori

|Japan

2004

|Walter C. Willett

|USA

2005

|Raj Reddy{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Raj-Reddy|title=Raj Reddy {{!}} Indian computer scientist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-08-18}}

|USA

2006

|Richard R. Nelson

|USA

2007

|{{ill|Philippe Mouret|fr}}

|France

rowspan="3" |2008

|Harald Rose

|Germany

Knut Urban

|Germany

Maximilian Haider

|Austria

2009

|Ian Frazer

|Australia

2010

|António Damásio

|USA/Portugal

2011

|Gábor A. Somorjai

|USA

2012

|Denis Le Bihan

|France

2013

|J. Tinsley Oden

|USA

2014

|Helmut Clemens

|Austria

2015

|Russell H. Taylor

|USA

rowspan="2"|2016

|{{ill|Akira Isogai|jp|磯貝明}}

|Japan

Hiroyuki Yano

|Japan

2017

|Hiroyuki Matsunami

|Japan

2018

|Fujio Masuoka

|Japan

2019

|Geoffrey E. Hinton

|UK/Canada

2020

|Henning Kagermann[https://www.hondafoundation.jp/en/index.html HONDA FOUNDATION]

|Germany

2021

|Alim Louis Benabid[https://www.hondafoundation.jp/en/index.html HONDA FOUNDATION]

|France

2022

|Hidetoshi Katori[https://www.hondafoundation.jp/en/index.html HONDA FOUNDATION]

|Japan

2023

|Masato Sagawa
John J. Croat[https://www.hondafoundation.jp/en/index.html HONDA FOUNDATION]

|Japan
USA

2024

|James Fujimoto[https://www.hondafoundation.jp/en/index.html HONDA FOUNDATION]

|USA

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