the US National Academy of Engineering 2009 – Kyoto Prize Advanced Technology, the Inamori Foundation 2010 – Lifetime Professor, Meijo University 2011 – Edison Medal, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2011 – Special Award for Intellectual Property Activities, the Japan Science and Technology Agency 2011 – Minami-Nippon Culture Prize-Honorable Prize 2014 – Nobel Prize in Physics together with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura 2015 – Charles Stark Draper Prize 2015 – Asia Game Changer Award 2016 – UNESCO Medal for contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies ceremony 2021 – Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering National 1997 – Medal with Purple Ribbon, the Japanese Government 2002 – Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, the Japanese Government 2004 – Person of Cultural Merit, the Japanese Government 2011 – Order of Culture, the Japanese Emperor See also List of Japanese Nobel laureates List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Kyoto University References Further reading Insights & Enterprise in PHOTONICS SPECTRA, 54, November 2004 Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Volume 639 (2000), pages xxiii－xxv External links Nobel Prize website Compound Semiconductor (pp. 17–19) New York Times obituary: “Nobel winner lit up the world with LEDs” (April 2021). 1929 births 2021 deaths Japanese nanotechnologists People from Kagoshima Prefecture Kyoto University alumni Academic staff of Nagoya University Light-emitting diode pioneers IEEE Edison Medal recipients Recipients of the Order of Culture Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class Recipients of the Medal of Honor (Japan) Japanese Nobel laureates Nobel laureates in Physics Draper Prize winners Fellow Members of the IEEE Members of the Japan Academy Nagoya University alumni Kagoshima University alumni Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering Asia Game Changer Award winners Deaths from pneumonia in Japan Kyoto laureates in Advanced Technology