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BASIC SCIENCES

Biological Sciences

1986: George Evelyn Hutchinson (US, 1903-1991)

1990: Jane Goodall (UK, 1934)

1993: William Donald Hamilton (UK, 1936-2000)

1997: Daniel Hunt Janzen (US, 1939)

2001: John Maynard Smith (UK, 1920-2004)

2005: Simon Asher Levin (US, 1941)

Mathematical Sciences

1985: Claude Elwood Shannon (US, 1916-2001)

1989: Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand (Russia, 1913)

1994: André Weil (France, 1906-1998)

1998: Kiyoshi Itō (Japan, 1915)

2002: Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (France, 1943)

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

1987: Jan Hendrik Oort (The Netherlands, 1900-1992)

1991: Edward Norton Lorenz (US, 1917)

1995: Chushiro Hayashi (Japan, 1920)

1999: Walter Heinrich Munk (US, 1917)

2003: Eugene Newman Parker (US, 1927)

Life Sciences

1992: Yasutomi Nishizuka (Japan, 1932-2004)

1996: Mario Renato Capecchi (US, 1937)

2000: Walter Jakob Gehring (Switzerland, 1939)

2004: Alfred G. Knudson (US, 1922)

Cognitive Science

1988: Avram Noam Chomsky (US, 1928)

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

Electronics

1985: Rudolf Emil Kalman (US, 1930)

1989: Amos Edward Joel Jr. (US, 1918)

1993: Jack St. Clair Kilby (US, 1923-2005)

1997: Federico Faggin (Italy, 1941), Stanley Mazor (US, 1941), Marcian Edward Hoff Jr. (US, 1937), Masatoshi Shima (Japan, 1943)

2001: Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia, 1930), Izuo Hayashi (Japan, 1922), Morton B. Panish (US, 1929)

2005: George H. Heilmeier (US, 1936)

Biotechnology and Medical Technology

1986: Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France, 1930)

1990: Sydney Brenner (UK, 1927)

1994: Paul Christian Lauterbur (US, 1929)

1998: Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland, 1938)

2002: Leroy Edward Hood (US, 1938)

Materials Science and Engineering

1987: Morris Cohen (US, 1911-2005)

1991: Michael Szwarc (US, 1909-2000)

1995: George William Gray (UK, 1926)

1999: W. David Kingery (US, 1926-2000)

2003: George McClelland Whitesides (US, 1939)

Information Science

1988: John McCarthy (US, 1927)

1992: Maurice Vincent Wilkes (UK, 1913)

1996: Donald Ervin Knuth (US, 1938)

2000: Antony Hoare (UK, 1934)

2004: Alan Curtis Kay (US, 1940)

ARTS AND PHILOSOPHY

Music

1985: Olivier Messiaen (France, 1908-1992)

1989: John Cage (US, 1912-1992)

1993: Witold Lutosławski (Poland, 1913-1994)

1997: Iannis Xenakis (France, 1922-2001)

2001: György Ligeti (Austria, 1923)

2005: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, 1929)

Arts

1986: Isamu Noguchi (US, 1904-1998)

1990: Renzo Piano (Italy, 1937)

1995: Roy Lichtenstein (US, 1923-1997)

1998: Nam June Paik (US, 1932)

2002: Tadao Ando (Japan, 1941)

Theater, Cinema

1987: Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1926)

1991: Peter Stephen Paul Brook (UK, 1925)

1994: Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1910-1998)

1999: Maurice Béjart (France, 1927)

2003: Tamao Yoshida (Japan, 1919)

Thought and Ethics

1988: Paul Thieme (Germany, 1905-2001)

1992: Karl Raimund Popper (UK, 1902-1994)

1996: Willard Van Orman Quine (US, 1908-2000)

2000: Paul Ricœur (France, 1913-2005)

2004: Jürgen Habermas (Germany, 1929)