Koshiba Prize

is an academic prize meant to honor "individuals or a small group of people who have demonstrated outstanding originality and internationally acclaimed achievements in the development of detector technology in the experimental sciences using accelerators." The award was established in 2003 to honor the work of Nobel Laureate Masatoshi Koshiba. Koshiba Prize winners must be under the age of 50, are selected annually and receive a certificate and ¥300,000. The award has been given exclusively to Japanese citizens until 2006, when it was awarded to Kim Sun-kee from Korea.

Laureates Year Laureate Institution Citation2003Kunio InoueFumihiko SuetsuguJunpei ShiraiTohoku UniversityDevelopment of a large-capacity liquid scintillator detector for observing reactor antineutrino deficit phenomena2004Suyama MotohiroJunji Haba Hamamatsu PhotonicsHigh Energy Accelerator Research Organization Development of high-speed, high-sensitivity pixel photosensors2005 Tanaka ShujiKim Sun-kee High Energy Accelerator Research OrganizationSeoul National University Development, mass production and quality control of the ATLAS experiment muon trigger chamberDevelopment of the Csl(TI) detector for dark matter search2006 Satoshi Mihara University of Tokyo Development and construction of a large liquid xenon detector for the μ←eγ decay search experiment (MEG) at PSI2007 Ryosuke Ito High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Development of a large-scale, high-speed data acquisition system for high-brightness electron-positron collision experiments2008 Abe ToshinoriKatsuhiko Kawai University of TokyoHamamatsu Photonics Development of large-aperture hybrid photodetectors2009 Wataru Otani University of Tokyo Design and construction of the positron spectrometer magnet "COBRA"2010 Shoji Uno High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Development of neutron and X-ray imaging device using micropattern gas detector2011 2012 Tomohisa Uchida High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Research and development of a high-speed data acquisition system using a hardware-based communication control device2013 2014 Nishiguchi So High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Development of an extremely low mass wire track detector for muon rare decay experiments2015 Kenichi SatoTerumasa NaganoShogo KamakuraRyuta Yamada Hamamatsu Photonics Improvement of Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC)2016 Kenji Inami Kobe University Development of New Particle Identification Detector “TOP Counter2017 Takaki HatsuiKenji Kojima Institute of Physical and Chemical ResearchHigh Energy Accelerator Research OrganizationDevelopment of wide dynamic range X-ray image sensor with SOI technologyDevelopment and application of high multiplicity positron detector Kalliope systemKenji KojimaInstitute of Materials Structure Science，High Energy Accelerator Research OrganizationDevelopment and application of high multiplicity positron detector Kalliope system2018 2019 Masahiro KotaniTerunori Kawai Hamamatsu Photonics Development of Box & Line type 20 inch photomultiplier tube for Hyper-Kamiokande2020 2021 Mitsuhiro NakamuraToshiyuki Nakano Institute of Materials and Systems for SustainabilityNagoya University Innovation on nuclear emulsion method for various experiments2022 Masato Takita University of TokyoEstablishment of the sub-PeV gamma ray astronomy by an air shower detector array with a water Cherenkov muon detectorTakashi KameshimaJapan Synchrotron Radiation Research InstituteDevelopment of quasi-diffraction-limited resolution X-ray imaging detector equipped with diffusion-free transparent scintillator2023 Koji Miwa Tohoku University Development of the experimental method for hyperon-proton scattering using recoil proton detector system (CATCH)2024Hiroyuki SekiyaInstitute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of TokyoDevelopment of Supernova Neutrino Detection Technology at Super-KamiokandeShinji OkadaShinya YamadaTadashi HasimotoTakuma OkumuraChubu UniversityRikkyo UniversityInstitute of Physical and Chemical ResearchTokyo Metropolitan UniversityAdvancing precision X-ray spectroscopy of exotic atoms using cryogenic detectors

See also Nishina Memorial Prize

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