Dr. Golberg and Dr. Gao were the first foreigners to win the Tsukuba Prize.
Dr. Kitamura was awarded the Practical-Use Research Award of the Tsukuba Encouraging Prize for his work on the development of single crystals with high optical functions by defect control dynamics and their application to photo-functional devices.
Dr. Ren was awarded the Young Investigator's Award of the Tsukuba Encouraging Prize for his work on the discovery of giant electrostrain effect by a new principle. Dr. Ren was the first foreigner to win this award.