Of UTokyo winners, five have been physicists, one chemists, two for literature, one for physiology or medicine and one for efforts towards peace. * Yasunari Kawabata, Literature, 1968 * Leo Esaki, Physics, 1973 * Eisaku Satō, Peace, 1974 * Kenzaburō Ōe, Literature, 1994 * Masatoshi Koshiba, Physics, 2002 * Yoichiro Nambu, Physics, 2008 * Ei-ichi Negishi, Chemistry, 2010 * Takaaki Kajita, Physics, 2015 * Yoshinori Ohsumi, Physiology or Medicine, 2016 * Syukuro Manabe, Physics, 2021