Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize is an award given annually by the Foundation for Promotion of Material Science and Technology of Japan (MST) to people who have achieved outstanding, creative results, with practical effect, by publishing theses, acquiring patents, or developing methods, technologies and the like and/or people with strong future potential for achieving such results. Chairman of the selection committee is Professor Hideki Shirakawa, the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The prize was established in commemoration of the late Teiichi Yamazaki, the first chairman of the MST's Board of Directors, for his contributions to scientific, technological and industrial development and human resource cultivation.
The Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize is awarded in the following four fields. Prizewinner receives an award diploma, a gold medal, and cash award of JPY 3,000,000 cash (about USD 30 thousands) per full Prize in each area.
MaterialsSemiconductors & semiconductor devicesMeasurement science & technologyBiological science & technology2009 - Development and Industrial Contribution of Amorphous Alloys2008 - Development of New Olefin Polymerization Catalysts and Their Applications to Novel Polyolefinic Materials2007 - Exploration of ZnO Based Semiconductor Technology2006 - Environmental Materials Using TiO2 Photocatalyst with Solar Energy2005 - Study on the Application of Tunnel magnetoresistance Junctions2004 - Research and Development of a Self-Regenerative Palladium-Perovskite Catalyst for Automotive Emissions Control2003 - Development and Industrialization of Functional Ceramics Produced from an Organosilicon Polymer2002 - Development of Ti-Ni Shape Memory Alloys and Contribution to Their Applications2001 - Next Generation, Electrical Resistance Welded Steel Tube with High Strength and Excellent Formability Contributing to Energy Conservation2009 - Pioneering development of seminal low-leakage CMOS circuits2008 - A pioneer research and industrial development of excimer laser lithography technology2007 - Pioneering Work of Sub-50 nm MOSFET Research and Development2006 - Advanced Research for Highly-reliable CMOS Gate Dielectric Films by Direct Nitridation of Silicon2005 - Development of Ultra-Small Chip for IC Tags and Related Technology2004 - High-level Synthesis and Verification on System LSI2003 - Development of Group IV Hetero CVD Technology and Creation of Atomically Controlled Processing]2002 - Invention of micro-channel epitaxy for drastic reduction of dislocation in highly lattice-mismatched hetero-epitaxial systems2001 - Pioneer Work for High-Quality Epitaxial Growth of Semiconductor Silicon Carbide and Power Devices2009 - Real Time Mass Spectrometry for Secure Society2008 - Development of ball surface acoustic wave sensor (ball SAW sensor)2007 - Development of Multiple-angle Incidence Resolution Spectrometry and Application to Analysis of Molecular Structure in Ultrathin Films2006 - Electrical Detection of Biomolecular Recognition Using Genetic Field Effect Transistor and its Application to Genetic Analyses2005 - Development and Application of Spin-Polarized Scanning Electron Microscope2004 - Universal Chiroptical Spectrophotometer (UCS) Development and Application to Solid Specimens2003 - Development of Variable Temperature SPM (Scanning Probe Microscope)2002 - Development of Highly Sensitive Micro Magnetic Sensor Using Amorphous Wire:Magneto-Impedance Sensor2001 - Development of Coaxial Impact-Collision Ion Scattering Spectroscopy and Its Application to In-situ Topmost Surface Analysis2009 - Creation of Cell Sheet Engineering Based on Intelligent Surfaces2008 - Identification of factors that induced and maintain pluripotency2007 - Development of the Cap-trapper, a Fundamental Technology to Isolate Full-length cDNAs and Annotate the Genome Function2006 - Electrical Study of Excitatory Neurotransmission System Based on Novel Molecular Probes2005 - Structural and Functional Study of Membrane Proteins2004 - Multidisciplinary Innovations in Bioimaging Technologies Using Fluorescent Proteins2003 - Establishment of Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System for Practical Usage2002 - Development of Novel and Practical Bioimaging Probes2001 - Development of the technology for the direct observation of dynamic motion of a single living molecule2008: Tohoku University - New Industry Creation Hatchery Center NEWS Professor Kazushi Yamanaka received the 8th Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize2008: Kyoto University - Center for iPS Cell Research and Application NEWS ROOM, Prof. Shinya Yamanaka recognized with Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize press release (in Japanese)2007: RIKEN NEWS Yamazaki-Teiichi Prizes awarded to two RIKEN scientists2007: Tokyo Institute of Technology - Prof.Hiroshi Iwai received an award of Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize with Dr. Hisayo Momose and Mr. Tatsuya Ohguro of Toshiba Corporation. Album2006: Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research TOPICS Keiko Shimamoto received 6th Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize (in Japanese)