Tsuneko Okazaki

Tsuneko Okazaki ( Japanese 岡 崎 恒 子 , Okazaki Tsuneko ; born June 7, 1933 ), also written as Tuneko Okazaki , is a Japanese molecular biologist who became known through the discovery and research of the Okazaki fragments together with her husband Reiji Okazaki .

Life

Tsuneko Okazaki enrolled at Nagoya University in 1952 , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1956 . In her fourth year of college she met Reiji Okazaki, whom she married in May 1956. After receiving her master's degree in 1958 , she became a doctoral candidate. In 1960, she and her husband received a Fulbright Scholarship from the University of Washington and then transferred to Stanford University . After her return in 1963 she received her doctorate and in 1965 received an assistant position at her alma mater. After publications about the first references to the Okazaki fragments later named after them, she was invited to Kansas State University as a visiting professor , where she conducted research from 1967 to 1968. In 1976 she became an assistant professor at Nagoya University and in 1983 a full professor. After she left the university in 1997, she became a professor at Sōgō Ikagaku Kenkyūjo (English Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science ) of the private Fujita Hoken Eisei Daigaku (English Fujita Health University ).

Awards

Tsuneko Okazaki received the Chūnichi Culture Prize of the Chūnichi Shimbun newspaper , the UNESCO L'Oréal Prize , and the Japanese Medal of Honor on the Violet Ribbon .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 岡 崎 フ ラ グ メ ン ト と 私 . In: Scientist Library. JT 生命 誌 研究 館 , accessed January 28, 2012 (Japanese).