Yukawa-Kimura Prize Winners (under constrution)
| Year | Name(Affiliation) | Recognized Research Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 19th(2025) | Yuya Tanizaki (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Assistant Professor) | For his research on "Topology and Quantum Anomalies: Applications to Quantum Field Theory" |
| 18th(2024) | Fuminobu Takahashi (Tohoku University, Professor) | For his research on "Particle Cosmology and Early Universe" |
| 17th(2023) | Kazuya Koyama (The University of Portsmouth, Professor) | For his research on "Cosmological Test of Gravity" |
| 16th(2022) | Kenta Hotokezaka (Reaseach Center for the Early Universe, The University of Tokyo, Associate Professor) | For his research on "Electromagnetic Counterparts of Neutron Star Mergers" |
| 15th(2021) | Tatsuma Nishioka (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics/Program-Specific Associate Professor) | "Studies of various entropies in quantum field theory and gravity theory" |
| 14th(2020) | Kenji Fukushima (The University of Tokyo/Professor) | "Theoretical studies of chiral magnetic effects" |
| 13th(2019) | Teruaki Suyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology/Associate Professor) Masahide Yamaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology/Professor) |
For his research on "Non-Gaussianity in primordial fluctuations of the universe" |
| 12th(2018) | Yuichiro Sekiguchi (Toho University/Associate Professor) | "Numerical-relativity simulation of binary neutron star mergers with realistic microphysics" |
| 11th(2027) | Hiroshi Suzuki (Kyushu University/Professor) | "Study of gradient flow and energy-momentum tensor in lattice gauge theory" |
| 10th(2016) | Atsushi Taruya (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics/Associate Professor) | "Exploration of precision nonlinear perturbation theory for gravitational evolution of structures in the universe" |
| 9th(2015) | Jun Nishimura (KEK/Associate Professor) Masanori Hanada (Kyoto University Hakubi center, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics/Associate Professor (Hakubi Researcher) |
"Numerical studies of supersymmetric gauge theory" |
| 8th(2014) | Akihiro Ishibashi (Kinki University/Associate Professor) | For his research on higher dimensionial general relativity |
| 7th(2013) | Masahiro Kawasaki (ICRR, The University of Tokyo/Professor) Kazunori Kohri (KEK/Lecturer) Takeo Moroi (The University of Tokyo/Professor) |
For their research on supergravity and nucleosynthesis |
| 6th(2012) | Kazuo Hosomichi (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics/Associate Professor(GCOE)) | For his research on exact solutions of supersymmetric gauge theories on curved space |
| 5th(2011) | Takeshi Chiba (Nihon University/Professor) | For his research on the Dark Energy Problem |
| 4th(2010) | Tadashi Takayanagi (The University of Tokyo, Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe/Associate Professor) | For his research on holography and tachyon condensation in superstring theory |
| 3rd(2009) | Jiro Soda (Kyoto University/Associate Professor) | For his research on cosmology and black holes in higher dimensional gravity |
| 2nd(2008) | Tadakatsu Sakai (Ibaraki University/Associate Professor) Shigeki Sugimoto(The University of Tokyo, Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe/Research Professor |
For their proposal of holographic QCD model based on gauge theory/gravity correspondence |
| 1st(2007) | Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto university/Associate Professor) | For his research on General Relativity and its Extensions |