Jun-ichi Tomizawa

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Jun'ichi Tomizawa ( Japanese 富 澤 純一 Tomizawa Jun'ichi ; born June 24, 1924 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † January 26, 2017 in Mishima , Shizuoka Prefecture ) was a Japanese molecular geneticist .

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Tomizawa graduated from Tokyo University in 1947 with a degree in pharmacology with a job with Morizo ​​Ishidate . He then worked at the Japanese National Institute of Health, where he researched DNA replication in bacteriophages . From 1957 he worked with Alfred Day Hershey at the Carnegie Institution of Washington , then with Cyrus Levinthal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1960 he was again at the Japanese National Institute of Health, where in 1961 he took over the management of the chemistry department and held courses on the biology of bacteriophages at Kanazawa University .

In 1965 Tomizawa was appointed professor and head of the department of biology at Osaka University . In 1971 he moved to the National Institutes of Health in the United States . From 1989 until his retirement in 1997, Tomizawa was director of the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima. From 1996 to 2006 he served as the founding editor of the scientific journal Genes to Cell , the official organ of the Japanese Society for Molecular Biology.

Tomizawa was considered a pioneer in molecular biology in Japan. He did a great job researching the mechanisms of gene replication, in particular he discovered the control of replication by RNA . According to the Scopus database , Tomizawa (as of October 2019) has an h-index of 43. He made a contribution to the education and scientific support of numerous doctoral students and postdocs . He also donated 150 million yen from his private fortune to set up a funding program for young scientists in the life sciences.

In 1971 Tomizawa was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1990 to the Japanese Academy of Sciences , and 1995 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1986 he received the Asahi Prize , and in 2000 he was named a Person of Special Cultural Merit .

literature

  • Hideyuki Ogawa, Tomoko Ogawa: In memory of Jun-ichi Tomizawa, Professor Emeritus of the National Institute of Genetics. In: Genes to Cells. 23, 2018, p. 508, doi: 10.1111 / gtc.12595 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Outline & History. In: nig.ac.jp. National Institute of Genetics , accessed October 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 富 沢 純一 さ ん 死去 日本 の 分子 生物学 の 草 分 け ： 朝日 新聞 デ ジ タ ル . In: asahi.com. The Asahi Shimbun Company, January 30, 2017, accessed October 12, 2019 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ a b The Asahi Prize. In: asahi.com. The Asahi Shimbun Company, accessed October 12, 2019 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ Tomízawa, June Ichi. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed October 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter T. (PDF; 432 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b 会員 個人 情報 | 日本 学士 院. In: japan-acad.go.jp. Japanese Academy of Sciences , accessed October 12, 2019 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ Jun-ichi Tomizawa. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed October 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tomizawa, Jun-ichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 富 澤 純一 (Japanese); Tomizawa Junichi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese molecular geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2017
Place of death Mishima , Shizuoka Prefecture