Graduate School of Science and Faculty of Science (京都大学大学院理学研究科・理学部) is one of schools at the

Kyoto University , mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture , established = , type = National university, Public (National) , endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 1000000000 (number), billion USD) , faculty = 3,480 (Teaching Staff) , administrative_staff ...

. The Faculty ( undergraduate school) and the

graduate School Postgraduate or graduate education refers to Academic degree, academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by higher education, post-secondary students who have earned an Undergraduate education, un ...

operate as one.

Divisions and facilities

The Faculty of Science comprises the following departments and facilities;

Divisions

* Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences * Physics and Astronomy * Earth and Planetary Sciences * Chemistry * Biological Sciences

Facilities

* Astronomical Observatory * Data Analysis Center for Geomagnetism * Institute for Geothermal Sciences * Aso Volcanological Laboratory

Rankings

According to the

QS World University Rankings ''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...

by Subject 2022, Kyoto University is ranked second in Japan and 25th in the world in the field of Natural Sciences. In Kawaijuku's 2022 Entrance Examination Ranking, the school received score 65.0, the highest of any natural science school in western Japan.

Notable alumni

Nobel Laureates

Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion. Biography He was born as Hideki Ogawa in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older sisters, and two yo ...

, Physics, 1949 * Shinichiro Tomonaga, Physics, 1965 *

Susumu Tonegawa is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the Genetics, genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize ...

, Physiology or Medicine, 1987 *

Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness G ...

, Physics, 2014

Engineering fields medalists

Heisuke Hironaka is a Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970 for his contributions to algebraic geometry. Career Hironaka entered Kyoto University in 1949. After completing his undergraduate studies at Kyoto University, he received his ...

, 1970 *

Shigefumi Mori is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry, particularly in relation to the classification of three-folds. Career Mori completed his Ph.D. titled "The Endomorphism Rings of Some Abelian Varieties" under Masayoshi Nagat ...

, 1990

References

External links

* Sciemce {{DEFAULTSORT:Faculty of Science, Kyoto University