Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize in Physics (2008)

Yoichiro Nambu (Distinguished Professor Emeritus)
1949 Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering
(September~)
1950 Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering
(March) ~ 1956 (August)
2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the mechanism of
spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
2011 Appointed Distinguished Professor Emeritus
2015 Deceased (July 5)
2015 Yoichiro Nambu Memorial Symposium held (September 29)
Nambu Street at Sugimoto Campus,
named after Professor Yoichiro Nambu
Nameplate engraved with a message
from Professor Yoichiro Nambu
"Spontaneous breach of symmetry"
artwork in the Faculty of Science
Nobel Prize in Medicine (2012)

Professor Shinya Yamanaka (Director of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University)
1987 Starts Residency at OCU School of Medicine,
Orthopedic Surgery Department
1989 Enters Doctoral Course of OCU Graduate School of Medicine,
Department of Pharmacology
1993 Obtained Doctoral Degree of OCU Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology (Doctorate in Medicine)
1996~ Research Associate OCU Faculty of Medicine,
1999 Department of Pharmacology
2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine "for the discovery that mature cells can
be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"
(Congratulations to Professor Yamanaka)
and
(Exhibition on Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Yamanaka)
2015 Special Lecture at the 70 years anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine (June 7)
In 1992 with Professor Kenjiro Yamamoto (Head of In 2008 after receiving the Asahi Award
the laboratory in the middle) and Professor Katsuyuki
Miura (his mentor, second from the right)