EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Kyoto, Japan

Founding Date:
1-May-1869

Enrollment:
22,000

Official Website:
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kenichi Fukui	Chemist	4-Oct-1918	9-Jan-1998	Frontier orbitals
James E. Hansen	Scientist	29-Mar-1941		Greenhouse effect and global warming
Chushiro Hayashi	Astronomer	25-Jul-1920	28-Feb-2010	Big Bang astrophysicist
Makoto Kobayashi	Physicist	7-Apr-1944		Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix
Aung San Suu Kyi	Activist	19-Jun-1945		Burmese activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Anthony J. Leggett	Physicist	26-Mar-1938		Particle physicist, explored superfluidity
Ryoji Noyori	Chemist	3-Sep-1938		Chiral catalysts
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga	Physicist	31-Mar-1906	8-Jul-1979	Quantum electrodynamics
Susumu Tonegawa	Scientist	6-Sep-1939		Antibody production and diversity
Hideki Yukawa	Physicist	23-Jan-1907	8-Sep-1981	Predicted existence of mesons

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kenichi Fukui	Chemist	4-Oct-1918	9-Jan-1998	Frontier orbitals
Chushiro Hayashi	Astronomer	25-Jul-1920	28-Feb-2010	Big Bang astrophysicist
Kiyoshi Ito	Mathematician	7-Sep-1915	10-Nov-2008	Ito Calculus
Makoto Kobayashi	Physicist	7-Apr-1944		Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix
Toshihide Maskawa	Physicist	7-Feb-1940		Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix
Ryoji Noyori	Chemist	3-Sep-1938		Chiral catalysts
Hideki Yukawa	Physicist	23-Jan-1907	8-Sep-1981	Predicted existence of mesons

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kenichi Fukui	Chemist	4-Oct-1918	9-Jan-1998	Frontier orbitals

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