Eiji Ōsawa
Eiji Ōsawa ( Japanese 大 澤 映 二 , Ōsawa Eiji ; * 1935 in Toyama Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese chemist who postulated and calculated the existence of the fullerene molecule in 1970 .
life and work
Ōsawa graduated from Kyoto University with a Master of Engineering degree in 1960 , where he received his doctorate in 1965. After a time as a research assistant at Princeton University , he became an associate professor in the Faculty of Science at Hokkaido University in 1970.
After research stays in Germany at the University of Karlsruhe , he accepted a position at the Technical University of Toyohashi in 1991 , where he retired in 2001.
He then founded the NanoCarbon Research Institute Ltd. In 2002 he was awarded the Chunichi Culture Prize.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eiji Osawa (大 澤 映 二): Superaromaticity . In: 「化学」 (Kagaku) . tape 25 , 1970, pp. 854-863 (Japanese).
- ^ Z. Yoshida, E. Osawa: Aromaticity . In: Kagaku Dojin . tape 22 , 1971, p. 174-178 (Japanese).
- ↑ István Hargittai: The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-19-850912-X , p. 87-
- ↑ DB Boyd, Z. Slanina: Introduction and foreword to the special issue commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Eiji Osawa's C60 paper . In: Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modeling . tape 19 , no. 2 , 2001, p. 181-184 , doi : 10.1016 / S1093-3263 (00) 00106-6 .
- ^ Opening up a new world of nanodiamonds - Dispersing nanodiamonds ( Memento from July 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ōsawa, Eiji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 大 澤 映 二 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese chemist, discoverer of the C60 molecule |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toyama Prefecture , Japan |