• 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)

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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)??