Nagoya University Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Toshihide Maskawa

Nobel Prize in Physics (2008) for work on CP violation

PhD in Physics

1967

Makoto Kobayashi

Nobel Prize in Physics (2008) for model of quark families

DSc (Science)

1972

Osamu Shimomura

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2008) for discovering green fluorescent protein

PhD (Chemistry)

1960

Tsuneko Okazaki

Discovered Okazaki fragments in DNA replication

PhD (Science)

1956

Tohru Fukuyama

Chemist who discovered the Fukuyama coupling

MSc / BSc (Chemistry)

1973, 1971

Shoichiro Toyoda

Chairman of Toyota and Japan Business Federation

Engineering

1947

Shuji Nakamura

Inventor of the blue LED; Nobel-level tech innovator

Engineering

N/A

Gotō Shinpei

Influential politician, diplomat, first mayor of Tokyo

Medical Studies

N/A

Uichiro Niwa

Diplomat and business leader; Ambassador to China

Economics / Law

N/A

Reiji Okazaki

Co-discovered Okazaki fragments in DNA replication

N/A

N/A

Koji Nakanishi

Organic chemist and former Columbia University department chair

PhD (Chemistry?)

N/A

Masayoshi Nagata

Mathematician known for work on algebraic geometry

PhD (Mathematics)

N/A

Yoshito Kishi

Renowned organic chemist

PhD (Chemistry)

N/A

Fumitada Itakura

Pioneer in signal processing theory

PhD (Engineering)

N/A

Ichiro Suzuki

Renowned baseball player

N/A

N/A

Kayo Matsumoto

Noted sociologist or researcher (fields vary)

PhD

N/A

Hiroomi Umezawa

Theoretical physicist; contributed to quantum theory

PhD (Physics)

N/A

Masatake Kuranishi

Influential mathematician

PhD (Mathematics)

N/A

Goro Azumaya

Known for Azumaya algebras in algebra

PhD (Mathematics)

N/A

Kozo Sugiyama

Computer scientist known for graph drawing algorithms

PhD (CS)

N/A