Kyoto laureates in Basic Sciences

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American Left as a consistent critic of the foreign policy of the United States, contemporary capitalism, and corporatocracy.

Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, and described by many publications as "the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert", she was best known for more than six decades of field research on the social and family life of wild chimpanzees in the Kasakela chimpanzee community at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Beginning in 1960, under the mentorship of the palaeontologist Louis Leakey, Goodall's research demonstrated that chimpanzees share many key traits with humans, such as using tools, having complex emotions, forming lasting social bonds, engaging in organised warfare, and passing on knowledge across generations, which redefined the traditional view that humans are uniquely different from other animals.

Japanese molecular biologist (1945 - )

American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

Dutch astronomer (1900–1992)

molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate

American theoretical physicist

Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–)

French mathematician (1906-1998)

American mathematician and meteorologist (1917–2008)

Russian and French mathematician and academic

Soviet-American mathematician

British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)

Hungarian mathematician

Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus (1915–2008)

Russian astronomer (born 1943)

British evolutionary biologist (1936–2000)

American astronomer (1927–2022)

British zoologist (1903–1991)

Japanese astrophysicist (1920–2010)

Japanese statistician (1927–2009)

American oceanographer (1917–2019)

Japanese mathematician born 1947

American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University

American geneticist (1922–2016)

American astronomer

Japanese seismologist

Japanese biologist (1932-2004)

Swiss scientist (1939-2014)

British-Canadian scientist (1952-2013)

American ecologist (born 1941)

American biologist

Japanese-born American geneticist and evolotionary biologist (1931 - 2023)

American biologist

married couple of British evolutionary biologists

Japanese award in biological sciences, mathematical sciences, earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics, or life sciences

Australian biophysicist