Shizuo Miyake

Background

Shizuo Miyake was born in 1911 in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Education

He graduated from Tokyo University in 1933.

Career

Shizuo Miyake served as an assistant at his alma mater and research worker of Physical & Chemical Research Institute. In the late 1950's he was appointed to a professorship at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and soon moved to the University of Tokyo, Institute of Solid State Physics. Until his retirement, he was the Director of that Institute.

He published numerous research papers in his own name, or in collaboration with others, particularly his students. He attended the IUCr Congress and General Assembly several times, initially in 1954, and often as the head of the Japanese delegates. He also served IUCr as a co-editor of Acta Crystallographica and a commission member. Professor Shizuo Miyake had been one of the leading figures in Japanese Crystallography for a long time.

Achievements

• Noted for his researches on X-ray crystal structure by X-ray and electron diffraction. The most famous ones include an experimental discovery of a failure of Friedel's law (|Fhkl| = |F -h-k-l |) in electron diffraction.

Works

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• book

  • Crystals and Waves

    (Collected Papers of Professor Shizuo Miyake)

    1972

Membership

• Japan Physical Society , Japan