Sumio Iijima to present Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry Annual Evans Lecture

October 21, 2011

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

1008 Evans Laboratory

2011-10-21 16:30:00 2011-10-21 18:30:00 Sumio Iijima to present Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry Annual Evans Lecture Sumio IijimaDirector (AIST/NRC)Senior Research Fellow (NEC Co.)Professor Iijima's lecture is entitled, "Nanocarbons Materials: Synthesis, Structures and Applications", and the schedule of events will be announced shortly. Sumio Iijima is a professor at Meijo University, Nagoya, while he is also a director of the Nano-tube Research Center at AIST in Japan and contributes as a Senior Research Fellow at NEC. After earning his PhD degree from Tohoku University, he worked with Prof. J. M. Cowley at Arizona State University where he developed high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (1970-1982). In 1982 he returned to Japan and worked for 5 years with the Japanese government research project (ERATO) on nano-particles, then joined the NEC fundamental research laboratories in 1987. In 1991 he discovered carbon nanotubes that have initiated nano-material science and nanotechnology. He has been recognized with numerous awards and prizes that include Agilent Europhysics Prize (2002), Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2002), Japan Academy Award and Imperial Award (2002), Balzan Prize for Nanoscience [Italy-Switzerland] (2007), The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience [Norway] (2008), The Prince of Asturias Award [Spain] (2008), Order of Culture [Japan] (2009), He is members of Foreign Associate of The National Academy of Sciences (2007), Foreign Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2009) and also member of The Japan Academy (2010).History of the Evans award lectures 1008 Evans Laboratory America/New_York public

Sumio Iijima

Director (AIST/NRC)
Senior Research Fellow (NEC Co.)

Professor Iijima's lecture is entitled, "Nanocarbons Materials: Synthesis, Structures and Applications", and the schedule of events will be announced shortly.

Sumio Iijima is a professor at Meijo University, Nagoya, while he is also a director of the Nano-tube Research Center at AIST in Japan and contributes as a Senior Research Fellow at NEC. After earning his PhD degree from Tohoku University, he worked with Prof. J. M. Cowley at Arizona State University where he developed high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (1970-1982). In 1982 he returned to Japan and worked for 5 years with the Japanese government research project (ERATO) on nano-particles, then joined the NEC fundamental research laboratories in 1987. In 1991 he discovered carbon nanotubes that have initiated nano-material science and nanotechnology. He has been recognized with numerous awards and prizes that include Agilent Europhysics Prize (2002), Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2002), Japan Academy Award and Imperial Award (2002), Balzan Prize for Nanoscience [Italy-Switzerland] (2007), The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience [Norway] (2008), The Prince of Asturias Award [Spain] (2008), Order of Culture [Japan] (2009), He is members of Foreign Associate of The National Academy of Sciences (2007), Foreign Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2009) and also member of The Japan Academy (2010).