Kenichi Fukui Prof. at Kyoto University, who was awarded the 1981 Prize in Chemistry, and Susumu Tunegawa, who was awarded the 1987 Prize in Physiology and Medicine and was also educated at Kyoto University. Japanese chemists awarded awards in 2000 and 2001 include: The first was the scientist Hideki Shirakawa, who studied at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, then Ryuji Nuyori (Kyoto University) and also received the King Faisal Prize. Masatoshi Kushiba was also educated at the University of Tokyo and awarded the Prize in Physics in 2002.