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The Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences is awarded once a year by the Inamori Foundation. The Prize is one of three Kyoto Prize categories; the others are the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology and the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. The first Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences was awarded to Claude Elwood Shannon, the “Establishment of Mathematical Foundation of Information Theory”. The Prize is regarded as a prestigious award available in fields which are traditionally not honored with a Nobel Prize.


== Fields ==
The Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences is awarded on a rotating basis to researchers in the following four fields: 

Mathematical sciences (including pure mathematics)
Biological sciences (evolution, behavior, ecology, environment)
Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
Cognitive science/Life sciences (molecular biology, cell biology, neurobiology)


== Laureates ==
Source: Kyoto Prize


=== Biological sciences ===


=== Mathematical sciences ===


=== Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics ===


=== Life sciences ===


=== Cognitive science ===


== See also ==
Kyoto Prize
Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
List of Kyoto Prize winners
List of astronomy awards
List of biology awards
List of mathematics awards


== References ==