Please note that JavaScript and style sheet are used in this website,
Due to unadaptability of the style sheet with the browser used in your computer, pages may not look as original.
Even in such a case, however, the contents can be used safely.

Carbon Nanotube

Biography

Name

Sumio Iijima (Male)

Date of Birth

May 2, 1939

Professional Title and Affiliation

  • Senior Research Fellow, NEC Corporation
  • Professor, Meijo University
  • Director, Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  • Distinguished Invited University Professor, Nagoya University

Education

1959-1963
University of Electro-communications, Tokyo, Bachelor of Engineering
1963-1965
Tohoku University, Sendai, Majoring in Physics; M.S.
1965-1968
Tohoku University, Sendai, Majoring in Physics; Ph.D

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
1979.3-1979.9
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)
1999-Present
Professor, Meijo University, Nagoya (Visiting Lecturer, 1998 - 1999)
2001-Present
Director, Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba
2005-Present
Dean, Sungkyunkwan University, Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT)
2007-Present
Distinguished Invited University Professor of Nagoya University, Nagoya

Research Awards

1995-1998
Research Coordinator, NEDO/International Projects "Studies on nanometer-scale tubular materials: growth, production, characterization, and properties" Project
1998-2002
Research Director, JST/ICORP "Nanotubulites" Project
2002-2006
Project Leader, NEDO "Advanced Nanocarbon Application Project"
2002-2006
Program Leader, MEXT/21st Century COE Program "Nano Factory"
2003-2008
Research Director, JST/SORST "Iijima Team"
2006-2009
Project Leader, NEDO “Carbon Nanotube Capacitor Development Project”

Honors, Awards

1976
Bertram Eugene Warren Diffraction Physics Award, The American Crystallography Society
1980
Seto Award, The Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy
1985
The Crystallographic Society of Japan Award (The Crystallographic Society of Japan)
1985
Nishina Memorial Award (The Nishina Memorial Foundation, Japan)
1986
Minister Award (The Agency of Science and Technology, Japan)
1986
Best Paper Award (The Japan Society for Applied Physics)
1989
Ban Memorial Award (The Ban Memorial Committee, Japan)
1996
Asahi Award (The Asahi Shinbun Cultural Foundation, Japan)
1998
Tsukuba Prize (The Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki, Japan)
2001
Ishikawa Carbon Award (Ishikawa Carbon Science and Technology Promotion Foundation, Japan)
2002
J.C.McGroddy Prize for New Materials (American Physical Society, USA)
2002
Agilent Europhysics Prize (European Physical Society)
2002
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (The Franklin Institute, USA)
2002
Honorary Doctor of the University of Antwerp
2002
Chunichi Bunka Award (Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd., Japan)
2002
The Mukai Award (Tokyo Ohka Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology, Japan)
2002
Japan Academy Award and Imperial Award (The Japan Academy)
2003
The JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award (The Japan Society of Applied Physics)
2003
Honorary Doctor of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
2003
Van Horn Lecture, Case Western Reserve University
2003
Person of Cultural Merits (Japanese Government)
2004
Honda Frontier Award (Honda Memorial Foundation, Japan)
2004
The Society's Medal of Achievement in Carbon Science and Technology (The American Carbon Society, USA)
2005
Distinguished Scientist Award, Physical Sciences (Microscopy Society of America)
2005
Honorary Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University
2005
Honorary Professor of Peking University
2006
The John M. Cowley Medal 2006 (The International Federation of Societies for Microscopy)
2007
Bodo von Borries Lecture 2007 (Universität Tübingen)
2007
Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography 2007 (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
2007
Fujiwara Award (The Fujihara Foundation of Science, Japan)
2007
Foreign Associate of The National Academy of Sciences
2007
2007 Balzan Prize for Nanoscience (International Balzan Prize Foundation, Italy)
2008
DOW lecture, Northwestern University
2008
The 2008 Plueddemann Award (Case Western University)
2008
The First Richard E. Smalley Research Award (The Electrochemical Society, USA) and Others
2008
The Kavli Prize Nanoscience 2008 (The Kavli Foundation, Norway)
2008
The Prince of Asturias Award for Technical Scientific Research 2008 (The Prince of Asturias Foundation, Spain)
2008
Economist Innovation Awards "No Boundaries" (The Economist, UK)
2008
George Pimentel Lecturer (U.C. Berkeley, USA)
2009
Foreign Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
2009
Honorary Professor of Tsinghua University
2009
Tsinghua Global Vision Lecturer (Tsinghua University, China)
2009
Order of Cultural Merits (Japanese Govenment)
2011.12
Foreign Fellow, Chinese Academy of Science

Societies

  • Foreign Associate, The National Academy of Sciences
  • Honorary Fellowship, Royal Microscopy Society
  • Foreign Member, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • Fellow, The American Physical Society
  • Fellow, Microscopy Society of America
  • Affiliated Member, Science Council of Japan
  • Fellow, The Japan Society of Applied Physics
  • Honorary Member, The Japanese Society of Microscopy
  • Honorary Member, The Crystallographic Society of Japan
  • Honorary Member, The Chemical Society of Japan, and Others

Editors and Advisory board members

  • Journal Nano, Chief Editor
  • Journal Small, Honorary Member
  • Ultramicroscopy, Advisory Editorial Board
  • Nanostructured materials, Associate Editor
  • Journal of electron microscopy, Advisory Board
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Advisory Board
  • Chemical Physics Letters, Advisory Board, and Others

Research Fields

Crystallography, Electron microscopy, Materials Science, Nano Science

get Adobe Reader