Shigeru Minomura

Shigeru Minomura ( Japanese 箕 村 茂 , Minomura Shigeru ; * September 1923 ; † April 2000 ) was a Japanese chemist and physicist who studied chemistry and high-pressure physics.

Minomura studied at the University of Kyoto , with a bachelor's degree in 1947 and a doctorate in 1957. As a post-doctoral student , he was at the University of Illinois with Harry Drickamer from 1958 to 1962 . In 1962 he returned to Japan and became an assistant professor and later professor at the Institute for Solid State Physics in Tokyo. In 1984 he became a professor at the University of Hokkaidō and later at the Natural Science University Okayama (Okayama Rika Daigaku) .

First in Japan he dealt with chemical reactions at high pressures and later, after his stay at Drickamer, also, for example, with the change in spectroscopic and other physical properties such as that of the electrical resistance at high pressures. For example, he investigated pressure-induced phase transitions in semiconductors.

In 1991 he received the Bridgman Award .

literature

• William Paul A Tribute to the Work of the Late Professor Shigeru Minomura , Physica Status Solidi, Volume 223, 2001, pp. 5-10
• Minomura (editor) Solid state physics under pressure: recent advances with anvil devices , Tokio, KTK Publ., And Reidel / Kluwer 1985