Background
Arata’s family is the male line descendant of the Prince of Goeku in Ryukyu Kingdom, Shô Ryûtoku, the fourth prince of the King Shō Shin, the third of the line of the Second Shō Dynasty.
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Hideyuki Arata
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University of Tokyo.
Career
Arata substantially contributed to develop a new interdisciplinary field by harmonizing Molecular biology, Analytical chemistry, Biophysics and Plant/Agricultural Sciences, with Microengineering and Nanoscience. He is the inventor of Free Rotation Magnetic Tweezers (FRMT) and is the first to observe a deoxyribonucleic acid twist by a single biomolecule by hand-made FRMT. He actively giving lectures at Universities and Research Institutes worldwide, such as École Normale Supérieure (Paris), University of Tokyo, Peking University, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Stanford University, Harvard University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves as an editor in multiple academic journals such as The Journal of Engineering (United Kingdom), Frontiers in Bioscience (United States of America), Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.
After graduated from Japanese Louisiana Salle Academy, he received his Bachelor of Science, Mississippi, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees all in electrical engineering, specialized in Microelectromechanical Systems and Biology-Microelectromechanical Systems, from the University of Tokyo.
In accordance with the advice by Phillip Allen Sharp (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1993), he moved into the field of single molecule biophysics under the advisory of Jean-Louis Viovy at Curie Institute (Paris). After his postdoctoral training at Harvard–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and at Rikagaku Kenkyūsho, he was appointed as a Group Leader/Designated Associate Professor at Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University in 2011 at the age of 31.
His serious activity as an amateur pianist drove American composer Frederic Rzewski to dedicate Nanosonata (2006), the later Nanosonatas Book I, Number. 1, to him. During his stay in Paris, he studied the piano under Olivier Gardon.
He also studied under Pascal Rogé and Philippe Entremont at Conservatoir de Nice summer academie, and Gabriel Tacchino at Mozarteum University of Salzburg.
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Arata received numerous awards from organizations and institutions in various fields of science and technology, including Young Engineers Award by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (jp) (2005, the youngest awardee), Young Innovator Award by CHEMINAS (jp) (2013), ITbM Research Award (2014), The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award for Younger Researchers(jp) (2014), Ishida Prize by Nagoya University (2014), and The Young Scientists" Prize by Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2015). He is an alumnus of the 61st. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, when he honored the support from Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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Japanese