Sumio Iijima

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Sumio Iijima

Sumio Iijima ( Japanese 飯 島 澄 男 Iijima Sumio ; born May 2, 1939 in Koshigaya ) is a Japanese physicist , best known for the discovery of the carbon nanotube in 1991.

Iijima graduated from the University of Electrical Communication Technology in Chofu , Tokyo Prefecture in 1963 with a bachelor's degree . He received his doctorate in the field of solid state physics in 1968 from Tōhoku University in Sendai .

From 1970 to 1982 he worked at Arizona State University on crystalline materials and high resolution electron microscopy . In between he visited the University of Cambridge in 1979 to conduct research on carbon-based materials. From 1982 to 1987 he worked for the Research Development Corporation in Japan , where he worked on nanoparticles . He then joined as a Senior Research Fellow at the service of the company NEC , where he works today. He has also held a chair at Meijō University in Nagoya since 1999 . From 2001 to 2015 he was President of the Research Center for New Carbon-Based Materials of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He has been an Honorary AIST Fellow there since 2015 . Since 2007 he has also been a Distinguished Invited University Professor at Nagoya University .

Iijima discovered carbon nanotubes by accident while working for NEC in 1991. He was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Physics in 2002, “for discovering and elucidating the atomic structure and helical character of the multi-walled and single-walled carbon nanotubes, which have a tremendous impact on the rapidly growing fields of materials science, nanoscience and electronics. "

Sumio Iijima, honored in 2003 as a person with special cultural merits , was awarded the 2007 Balzan Prize, endowed with one million Swiss francs, “for his discovery of carbon nanotubes, especially single-walled carbon nanotubes, and for researching their properties” . He also received the Gregori Aminoff Prize in 2007, the Kavli Prize in 2008 and (together with Shuji Nakamura , Robert Langer , George M. Whitesides and Tobin Marks ) the Prince of Asturias Prize for Natural Sciences. In 2009 he received the Japanese Order of Culture ("bunka kunshō") , in 2015 he (together with Akira Koshio and Masako Yudasaka ) received the European Inventor Award of the European Patent Office in the category of non-European countries.

In 2000 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2007 of the National Academy of Sciences . He is an external member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luigi Cerruti, Emilio Marco Pellegrino, Elena Ghibaudi: At the origins of nanotechnology. Discoveries and tough competition in the field of the carbon nanotubes . In: Salvatore Esposito (ed.): Atti del XXXV Convegno annuale SISFA - Arezzo 2015 . Pavia University Press, ISBN 978-88-6952-043-3 , pp. 239 , p. 230 ( paviauniversitypress.it [PDF]).
  2. ^ Iijima, Sumio: Physicist; electron microscopist; educator . In: Current Biography . tape 70 , no. November 11 , 2009, p. 35 ( ebscohost.com ).
  3. ↑ Online Extra: Q&A with NEC's Sumio Iijima. Bloomberg, July 8, 2002, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Biography Sumio Iijima. NEC, accessed December 11, 2019 .
  5. ^ Sumio Iijima: Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon . In: Nature . tape 354 , 1991, pp. 56-58 , doi : 10.1038 / 354056a0 ( nature.com ).
  6. ↑ Sumio Iijima. In: The Franklin Institute Awards. April 2002, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Sumio Iijima: 2007 Balzan Prize for Nanoscience. International Balzan Prize Foundation, November 22, 2007, accessed on November 30, 2018 (English).
  8. ↑ Sumio Iijima 2008 Nanoscience. kavliprize.org, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Investigación Científica y Técnica 2008. Fundación Princesa de Asturias, accessed on November 30, 2018 (English).
  10. ↑ Tsuyoshi Inoue: Iijima Receives Japan's Top Cultural Award . In: IUCr Newsletter . tape 18 , no. 1 , 2010 (English, iucr.org ).
  11. ^ Winners of the European Inventor Award 2015 in the category Non-European countries. EPO, accessed November 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Iijima, Sumio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 飯 島 澄 男 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Koshigaya