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Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist. Achievements include discovery of carbon nanotubes, 1991. Fellow: Royal Microscopy Society (honorary); member: National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate), Microscopy Society Japan, Science Council Japan.

Background

Iijima, Sumio was born on May 2, 1939 in Saitama, Japan. Son of Fukumatsu and Take Iijima.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University Electro-Comm., Chofu, Tokyo, 1963. Master of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, 1968.

Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Antwerp, 2002. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, 2003.

Career

Research associate Research Institute of Science Measurements, Tohoku University, 1968—1974. Senior research associate, department physics Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1970—1982. Research scientist, group leader, ERATO progressive Research Development Corporation Japan, Nagoya, 1982-1987.

Senior research fellow Nippon Electric Corporation Corporation, Tsukuba, Japan, since 1987. Professor department materials science and engineering Meijo University, Nagoya, since 1998. Research director Nanotubulite Project, International Cooperation Research Project, Japan Science & Technology Agency, Tsukuba and Nagoya, 1998—2002.

Director Nanotube Research Center, National Institute Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Tsukuba, since 2001. Dean Sungkyunkwan University Advanced Institute Nanotechnology (SAINT), since 2005. Visiting research scientist, department metallurgy and materials science University Cambridge, England, 1979.

Project reader Advanced Nanocarbon Application Project, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (New Energy & Industrial Development Organization), 2002—2006, Carbon Nanotube Capacitor Development Project, since 2006. Research director CNT Project, Japan Science & Technology Agency/Solution Orientated Research & Technology, 2003—2008. Special adjunct professor Nagoya University, since 2007.

Achievements

  • Achievements include discovery of carbon nanotubes, 1991.

Works

  • Other Work

    • Associate editor Nanostructural Materials, editorial board member Journal Nano, member advisory board Journal Electron Microscopy, Journal Applied Physics, Ultramicroscopy. Contributor articles to professional journals.

Membership

Fellow: Royal Microscopy Society (honorary). Member: National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate), Microscopy Society Japan, Science Council Japan.

Interests

  • Flute, tennis, skiing.

Connections

Married Aida Nobuko, March 10, 1968. Children: Masako.

Father:
Fukumatsu Iijima

Mother:
Take Iijima

Spouse:
Aida Nobuko

child:
Masako Iijima

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Awards

  • Recipient Bertram Eugene Warren Diffraction Physics award American Crystallography Society, 1976, Seto award, Japanese Society Electron Microscopy, 1980, Crystallographic Society Japan award, 1985, Nishina Memorial award, Nishina Memorial Foundation, Japan, 1985, Minister award, Agency Science and Technology, Japan, 1986, Asahi award, Asahi Shinbun Cultural Foundation, Japan, 1996, Tsukuba prize, Science and Technology Promotion Foundation Ibaraki, Japan, 1999, Ishikawa Carbon award, Ishikawa Carbon Science and Technology Promotion Foundation, 2001, J.C. McGroddy prize for New Materials, American Physical Society, 2002, Agilent Europhysics prize, European Physical Society, 2002, Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, Franklin Institute, 2002, American Physical Society McGroddy Materials Prize, 2002, Chunichi Bunka award, 2002, Mukai award, 2002, Japan Academy award and Imperial award, 2002, Japan Society Applied Physics Outstanding Achievement award, 2003, Honda Frontier award, 2004, Society medal of Achievement in Carbon Science and Technology, American Carbon Society, 2004, Distinguished Scientist award, Physical Sciences, Microscopy Society America, 2005, John M. Cowley medal, International Federation Societies for Microscopy, 2006, Balzan prize for Nanoscience, International Balzan Prize Foundation, 2007, Gregori Aminoff prize in crystallography, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2007, Fujiwara award, 2007, Plueddemann award, Case Western University, 2008, Richard E. Smalley Research award, Electrochemical Society, 2008, Kavli prize in Nanoscience, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in partnership with the Kavli Foundation and Norwegian Ministry Education and Research, 2008. Named Person of Cultural Merits, 2003, honorary professor, Xifan Jiaotong University, 2005, Peking University, 2006.