Nagoya University facts for kids

The Toyoda Auditorium of Nagoya University

Nagoya University (名古屋大学, Nagoya daigaku), also known as Meidai (名大), is a university in Nagoya, Japan. Its first name was "Nagoya Imperial University".

Six alumni and faculties of Nagoya University have received the Nobel Prize.

• Hiroshi Amano, 2014 Physics.
• Isamu Akasaki, 2014 Physics
• Makoto Kobayashi, 2008 Physics.
• Toshihide Maskawa, 2008 Physics.
• Osamu Shimomura, 2008 Chemistry.
• Ryōji Noyori, 2001 Chemistry.

Related pages

• List of national universities in Japan

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  Nagoya Imperial University, one of the representative universities of the Japanese Empire.

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  Nagoya University Higashiyama Campus. The university has produced seven Nobel Prize laureates in science.

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  Nagoya University name monument

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  Nagoya University Hospital

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  Shoichi Sakata (坂田 昌一), a physicist, known for theoretical work on the subatomic particles (Sakata model), Nobel Prize in Physics nominee.

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  Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠), one of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for CKM matrix.

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  Toshihide Maskawa (益川 敏英), one of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for CKM matrix.

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  Isamu Akasaki (赤崎 勇), one of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the blue LED.

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  Hiroshi Amano (天野 浩), one of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the blue LED.

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  Syukuro Manabe (真鍋 淑郎), one of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for physical modeling of earth's climate.

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  Koji Nakanishi (中西 香爾), a Japanese-American bioorganic and natural products chemist, graduated from Nagoya, professor at Columbia University.

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  Ryōji Noyori (野依 良治), one of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners, spent most of his academic career researching and teaching at the university.

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  Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩), one of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for green fluorescent protein (GFP).

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  Yoshito Kishi (岸 義人), Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University.

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  Tohru Fukuyama (福山 透), an organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo.

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  Shigefumi Mori (森 重文), one of the 1990 Fields Medalists, spent most of his academic career at the university until he won the Fields Medal in 1990.

See also

In Spanish: Universidad de Nagoya para niños