Isamu Akasaki - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

• 1989 Japanese Association for Crystal Growth(JACG)’s Award.
• 1991 Chu-Nichi Culture Prize
• 1994 JACG’s Technological Contribution Award in commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of JACG.
• 1995 Heinrich Welker Gold Medal (International Conference).
• 1996 IEEE/LEOS Engineering Achievement Award.
• 1997 The Medal with Purple Ribbon (The Japanese Gevernment).
• 1998 Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST)’s Inoue Harushige Award jointly with Toyoda Gosei Co.Ltd
• 1998 C&C Prize
• 1998 Laudise Prize (The International Organization for Crystal Growth)
• 1998 IEEE Jack A. Morton Award
• 1998 Rank Prize (Rank Foundation)
• 1999 IEEE Fellow
• 1999 ECS Solid-State Science& Technology Award (presently,the Gordon E.Moore Award for Solid- State Science& Technology)
• 1999 Honoris Causa Doctorate (University of Montpellier II)
• 2000 Toray Science and Technology Prize
• 2001 Asahi Prize
• 2001 Honoris Causa Doctorate (Linkoping University)
• 2002 Japan Society of Applied Physics(JSAP)’s Outstanding Achievement Award.
• 2002 Fujihara Prize
• 2002 The Order of the Rising Sun,Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (The Japanese Government)
• 2002 Takeda Award
• 2003 President's Award of the Science Council of Japan(SCJ).
• 2003 Solid State Devices& Materials(SSDM)Award
• 2004 Person of Cultural Metrits (The Japanese Government)
• 2004 Tokai TV Culture Prize
• 2004 University Professor of Nagoya University
• 2006 TMS John Bardeen Award
• 2006 JACG’s Outstanding Achievement Award.
• 2007 Honorable Lifetime Achievement Award of the 162nd Research Committee on Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Photonic and Electronic Devices of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)
• 2008 Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.
• 2009 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
• 2010 Lifetime Professor of Meijo University
• 2011 IEEE Edison Medal
• 2011 JST’s Special Award for Intellectual Property Activities
• 2011 Minami-Nippon Culture Prize-Honorable Prize
• 2011 The Order of Culture (from The Japanese Emperor )