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Nishina Memorial Prize (仁科記念賞 Nishina Kinenshō) is the oldest and most prestigious physics award in Japan. Since 1955 the Prize has been awarded annually by the Nishina Memorial Foundation. The Foundation was established to commemorate Yoshio Nishina who was the founding father of modern physics research in Japan and a mentor of the first two Japanese Nobel Laureates Hideki Yukawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.