The Nishina Asia Award has been established in 2012 as one of the activities of the Nishina Memorial Foundation to recognize an outstanding achievement by young Asian scientist in the field of basic physics. The Award will be granted to one person every year. A medal and monetary prize of JPY 400,000 will be awarded to the winner. The winner will be invited to the award ceremony on December 6, and to visit various universities and institutions in Japan within 2 weeks, giving talks on the work recognized in the award. The travel expenses will be covered by the Nishina Memorial Foundation. The intent of this award is to recognize and to inspire a young Asian scientist in the early part of his or her career. Candidates are only accepted up to 15 years after the completion of their PhD. Based on this limitation, any persons from Asia (excluding Japan), who are working in Asia and have contributed significantly to the field of basic physics, are eligible for consideration. The award winner will be chosen by a selection committee, and he or she will be announced in August. The winners so far are as shown below.
2020
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Dr. Ying Jiang | Boya Distinguished Professor, International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, China | his seminal contributions to the understanding of structure and dynamics of interfacial water on the atomic scale. |
2019
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Dr. Chao-Yang Lu | Professor of Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China | his outstanding contributions to quantum information science with single photons. |
2018
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Dr. Yu-tin Huang | Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan | his contributions to uncovering hidden symmetries and structures in S-matrix of gauge and gravity theories. |
2017
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Dr. Hongming Weng | Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China | his theoretical contributions to the discovery of Weyl semimetals. |
2016
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Dr. Seok Kim | Associate Professor, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea | Evaluation of Supersymmetry Indices of M2 and M5 Brane Theories |
2015
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Dr. Ke He | Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China | his outstanding contributions to the first experimental realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect. |
2014
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Dr. Yuanbo Zhang | Professor, Dept. of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China | his outstanding contributions to the elucidation of electronic properties of monolayer and bilayer graphene. |
2013
| Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Dr. Shiraz Minwalla | Professor, The Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | his seminal work which uncovered the deep relation between the equations of fluid dynamics and Einstein’s equations of General Relativity. |