Sumio Iijima

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Sumio Iijima
Carbon nanotubes
AwardsSee below
Scientific career
FieldsNanotechnology
Institutions
  • NEC Corporation
  • Meijo University
  • Nagoya University

Sumio Iijima (飯島 澄男, Iijima Sumio, born 2 May 1939) is a Japanese physicist and inventor, often cited as the inventor of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "invention", Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and has since fueled intense research in the area of nanotechnology.

Born in

Sendai
.

Between 1970 and 1982 he performed research with

electron microscopy at Arizona State University. He visited the University of Cambridge during 1979 to perform studies on carbon
materials.

He worked for the

University Professor at Meijo University since 1999. Furthermore, he is the Honorary AIST Fellow of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Distinguished Invited University Professor of Nagoya University
.

He was awarded the

Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
in 2002, "for the discovery and elucidation of the atomic structure and helical character of multi-wall and single-wall carbon nanotubes, which have had an enormous impact on the rapidly growing condensed matter and materials science field of nanoscale science and electronics."

He is a foreign associate of

National Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2]
He is also a Member of the Japan Academy.

Research fields

Nano Science, Crystallography, Electron Microscopy, Solid-State Physics, Materials Science

Professional record

  • 1968 – 1974: Research Associate, Research Institute for Scientific Measurements, Tohoku University, Sendai
  • 1970 – 1977: Research Associate, Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
  • 1977 – 1982: Senior Research Associate, Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
  • 1979: Visiting Senior Scientist, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
  • 1982 – 1987: Group Leader, ERATO Program, Research Development Corporation of Japan, Nagoya
  • 1987 – Present: Senior Research Fellow, NEC Corporation, Tsukuba (Joined NEC in 1987 as Senior Principal Researcher)
  • 1998 – 2002: Research Director, JST/ICORP "Nanotubulites" Project Tsukuba and Nagoya
  • 1999 – Present: University Professor, Meijo University, Nagoya
  • 2001 – 2015: Director, Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba
  • 2005 – 2012: Dean, SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT, http://saint.skku.edu), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea.
  • 2006 – 2009: Project Leader, NEDO “Carbon Nanotube Capacitor Development Project”[3]
  • 2007 – Present: Distinguished University Professor of Nagoya University, Nagoya
  • 2008 – 2012: Distinguished Invited Chair Professor for World Class University (WCU) Program, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea.
  • 2015 – Present: Honorary AIST Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Academy

Recognition

Honors

Major awards

References

  1. S2CID 4302490
  2. ^ "Gruppe 2: Fysikkfag (herunder astronomi, fysikk og geofysikk)" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  3. doi:10.5571/syntheng.9.3_167
    .
  4. ^ "Gruppe 2: Fysikkfag (herunder astronomi, fysikk og geofysikk)" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  5. ^ "Emperor awards decoration to Russian Japanese art expert," Archived 7 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine Mainichi Shimbun. 4 November 2009.

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