• Professor Nambu, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008

• Professor Yamanaka, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2012

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)