Makoto Kikuchi

Makoto Kikuchi ( Japanese 菊池 誠 , Kikuchi Makoto ; born December 6, 1925 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † November 6, 2012 ) was a Japanese physicist who held high positions in state semiconductor research and at Sony .

Kikuchi was the son of the President of Yokohama Municipal University . From 1945 he studied physics at the University of Tokyo . After completing his studies, in 1948 he went to the newly established physics department of the State Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) and devoted himself to semiconductor research, which was experiencing an upswing after the invention of the transistor. In 1960 he was at the electronics research laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the invitation of Jerome Wiesner . In 1974 he became director of the Sony Research Center in Yokohama . Among other things, he drove the development of CCD sensors and semiconductor lasers for compact discs . In 1984 he became managing director of Sony, which he remained until 1989 when he became professor of electronics at Tokai University . But he remained a scientific advisor to Sony.

For his book Transistor ( ト ラ ン ジ ス タ , Toranshisuta ) he received the Mainichi Culture Prize in the category of natural science in 1959 .

Web links

• Oral History Interview at the IEEE, 1994

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1. ↑ （お く や み） 菊池 誠 氏 が 死去 元 ソ ニ ー 常務 . In: Nikkei. Retrieved December 15, 2012 (Japanese).