Education
He received the Bachelor of Surgery, Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1977, 1979 and 1982.
大野 英男
physicist university professor
He received the Bachelor of Surgery, Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1977, 1979 and 1982.
He is a professor of spintronics at Research Institute of Electrical Communication Tohoku University. He spent one year as a visiting-graduate student at Cornell University, Ithaca, United States of America from 1979. From 1982 to 1983 he was a lecturer of School of Engineering at Hokkaido University.
From 1983 to 1994 he was an associate professor
In 1994 was appointed a professor of Tohoku University. Since 1995 he is a professor of Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC) at Tohoku University.
In 2004 he became a head of laboratory of Nanoelectronics and Spintronics at Tohoku University. In 2010 became a director of center for Spintronics Integrated Systems.
He was a possible candidate for receiving of Nobel prize in 2011.
1998 - International Business Machines Corporation Japan Science Award 2005 - Japan Academy Prize, jointly with Hiroyuki Sakaki for "Studies on Quantum Control of Electrons by Semiconductor Nanostructures and Ferromagnetism" 2005 - EPS Europhysics Prize, jointly with David Awschalom and Tomasz Dietl, for their work on ferromagnetic semiconductors and spintronics 2011 - Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate 2012 - JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award 2012 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers David Sarnoff Award, in recognition of his leadership and contribution in the electronics division of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).