Educational and professional background


Born: December 1951, Japan
B.S. in Physics University of Tokyo 1974
Ph.D. in Physics University of Tokyo 1979
JSPS Fellow University of Tokyo, INS 1979 (April - August)
Enrico Fermi Fellow University of Chicago 1979 - 1981
Research Investigator University of Pennsylvania 1981 - 1984
Assistant Professor University of Minnesota 1984 - 1988
Associate Professor University of Minnesota 1988 - 1990
Professor University of Minnesota 1990 - 2000 (June)
Professor Osaka University 2000 (June) - 2017 (March)
Professor Emeritus Osaka University 2017 (April)

Awarded the 53rd Nishina Memorial Prize, December 2007
"Discovery of the Hosotani mechanism"
Nishina Memorial Foundation

With my colleagues