Professors at Hungarian and Japanese universities were among the three winners of the 2010 Kyoto Prizes, worth about $550,000 each, the Inamori Foundation announced on Friday. The awards, in three categories, recognize “people who have contributed significantly to the progress of science, the advancement of civilization, and the enrichment and elevation of the human spirit,” the foundation said. The winners are: in the advanced-technology category, Shinya Yamanaka, a medical scientist at Japan’s Kyoto University; in the basic-sciences category, László Lovász, a mathematician at Hungary’s Eötvös Loránd University; and in the arts-and-philosophy category, William Kentridge, a visual artist in South Africa. The winners will receive their prizes in Kyoto on November 10.