Posts by Category: Chemists

Masao Horiba

Masao Horiba

Dr. Masao Horiba is a pioneer in student-launched start-up companies in Japan. He founded Horiba Radio Laboratory in 1945. This became the foundation of HORIBA, Ltd., which manufactures a wide range ...

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Hisashi Yamamoto

Hisashi Yamamoto

Hisashi Yamamoto (born in 1943) is organic chemist in Japan. He is currently director of Molecular Catalyst Research Center at Chubu University. He was born in Kobe, Japan. He received his Bachelor ...

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Gábor A. Somorjai

Gábor A. Somorjai

Gabor A. Somorjai (born 1935) is  a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in USA. He is a leading physical chemist, particularly in the field of solid state chemistry, surface science ...

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Kohei Tamao

Kohei Tamao

Kohei Tamao (Born in 1942) is an organic chemist in Japan. He is currently the Chemical Society of Japan. Kohei Tamao received his B.S. (1965), and Master’s (1967) degrees from Kyoto University ...

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Teruaki Mukaiyama

Teruaki Mukaiyama

Teruaki Mukaiyama (born 1927) is an organic chemist in Japan. He was born on January 5, 1927 in Nagano, Japan. He received his BSc from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) in 1948 and his PhD ...

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Kenichiro Itami

Kenichiro Itami

Kenichiro Itami (born in 1971) is an organic chemist in Japan. He  received his Ph.D.from Kyoto University under the guidance of Prof. Yoshihiko Ito. In 1998, he began his academic career at Kyoto ...

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