Taniguchi Norio
Taniguchi Norio ( Japanese 谷口 紀 男 ; * May 27, 1912 ; † November 15, 1999 ) was a Japanese engineer.
Life
After graduating from 8th High School in Nagoya , he studied weapons engineering at the engineering faculty of the Imperial University of Tokyo . After graduating in 1936, he went to the pharmaceutical company Wakamoto Seiyaku, where he designed equipment for yeast production. In 1940 he left the company and received a teaching position at the Yamanashi Higher Technical School (from 1949 Yamanashi University ), where he received a professorship in mechanical engineering. After the war he was jointly responsible for establishing a department for precision mechanics. From 1961 to 1963 he was dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and left the university in 1966. From 1963 Taniguchi was a senior scientist at RIKEN . From 1973 to 1990 he taught mechanical engineering at the University of Science Tokyo (Tokyo University of Science).
Taniguchi's research area was the precision processing of brittle materials using electron beams , microwaves , lasers and ultrasound .
In 1974 he coined the term nanotechnology . This term was later coined again independently in 1986 by Eric Drexler .
He was the recipient of the medal on the violet ribbon and the Order of the Rising Sun , 3rd class.
Web links
- Mikhail E. Popov: Norio Taniguchi . In: Rusnano Glossary of Nanotechnology and related terms (English)
- nanotech history. kheper.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 日本 の 工作 機械 を 築 い た 人 々 谷口 紀 男 氏 . (PDF) SME Tōkyō, April 1993, accessed August 8, 2015 (Japanese).
- ↑ Norio Taniguchi: On the Basic Concept of “Nano-Technology” . In: Japan Society of Precision Engineering (Ed.): Proc. Intl. Conf. Prod. Eng. Tokyo, Part II . 1974.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taniguchi, Norio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 谷口 紀 男 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese engineer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1912 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1999 |