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.
Materials
Semiconductors & semiconductor devices
Measurement science & technology
Biological science & technology
2009 - Development and Industrial Contribution of Amorphous Alloys
2008 - Development of New Olefin Polymerization Catalysts and Their Applications to Novel Polyolefinic Materials
2007 - Exploration of ZnO Based Semiconductor Technology
2006 - Environmental Materials Using TiO2 Photocatalyst with Solar Energy
2005 - Study on the Application of Tunnel magnetoresistance Junctions
2004 - Research and Development of a Self-Regenerative Palladium-Perovskite Catalyst for Automotive Emissions Control
2003 - Development and Industrialization of Functional Ceramics Produced from an Organosilicon Polymer
2002 - Development of Ti-Ni Shape Memory Alloys and Contribution to Their Applications
2001 - Next Generation, Electrical Resistance Welded Steel Tube with High Strength and Excellent Formability Contributing to Energy Conservation
2009 - Pioneering development of seminal low-leakage CMOS circuits
2008 - A pioneer research and industrial development of excimer laser lithography technology
2007 - Pioneering Work of Sub-50 nm MOSFET Research and Development
2006 - Advanced Research for Highly-reliable CMOS Gate Dielectric Films by Direct Nitridation of Silicon
2005 - Development of Ultra-Small Chip for IC Tags and Related Technology
2004 - High-level Synthesis and Verification on System LSI
2003 - 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 systems
2001 - Pioneer Work for High-Quality Epitaxial Growth of Semiconductor Silicon Carbide and Power Devices
2009 - Real Time Mass Spectrometry for Secure Society
2008 - 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 Films
2006 - Electrical Detection of Biomolecular Recognition Using Genetic Field Effect Transistor and its Application to Genetic Analyses
2005 - Development and Application of Spin-Polarized Scanning Electron Microscope
2004 - Universal Chiroptical Spectrophotometer (UCS) Development and Application to Solid Specimens
2003 - Development of Variable Temperature SPM (Scanning Probe Microscope)
2002 - Development of Highly Sensitive Micro Magnetic Sensor Using Amorphous Wire:Magneto-Impedance Sensor
2001 - Development of Coaxial Impact-Collision Ion Scattering Spectroscopy and Its Application to In-situ Topmost Surface Analysis
2009 - Creation of Cell Sheet Engineering Based on Intelligent Surfaces
2008 - Identification of factors that induced and maintain pluripotency
2007 - Development of the Cap-trapper, a Fundamental Technology to Isolate Full-length cDNAs and Annotate the Genome Function
2006 - Electrical Study of Excitatory Neurotransmission System Based on Novel Molecular Probes
2005 - Structural and Functional Study of Membrane Proteins
2004 - Multidisciplinary Innovations in Bioimaging Technologies Using Fluorescent Proteins
2003 - Establishment of Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System for Practical Usage
2002 - Development of Novel and Practical Bioimaging Probes
2001 - Development of the technology for the direct observation of dynamic motion of a single living molecule
2008: Tohoku University - New Industry Creation Hatchery Center NEWS Professor Kazushi Yamanaka received the 8th Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize
2008: 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 scientists
2007: 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. Album
2006: Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research TOPICS Keiko Shimamoto received 6th Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize (in Japanese)
