Kyoto University
Founded 1897. Japan's second imperial university, iPS cells and multiple Nobel laureates.
Overview
Founded as Kyoto Imperial University after the capital moved to Tokyo, the university built a culture of independent research. Hideki Yukawa won Japan's first Nobel in 1949 for meson theory, and Shinya Yamanaka reprogrammed adult cells into iPS stem cells here, winning the 2012 prize. The Primate Research Institute and Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics carry global names. Kyoto's temple-district setting colors campus festivals and the November maples. Eleven Nobel laureates tie to the university, many in physics and chemistry. Its emphasis on freedom of scholarship endures in admissions culture.
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