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    Sumio Iijima (飯島 澄男, Iijima Sumio, born 2 May 1939) is a Japanese physicist and inventor, often cited as the inventor of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "invention", Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and has since fueled intense research in the ...

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  2. The Kavli Prize consists of USD $1,000,000 in each of the scientific fields. Sumio Iijima shared the 2008 Kavli Prize in nanoscience for their large impact in the development of the nanoscience field of the zero and one-dimensional nanostructures in physics, chemistry, and biology.

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  3. Oct 6, 2021 · Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist and inventor who was the first to clearly describe the formation of carbon nanotubes and imagine their potential. Iijima's 1991 discovery and subsequent work sparked a revolution in nanotechnology, which uses materials measured in nanometers (one billionth of a meter).

  4. Iijima has been a research fellow at NEC since 1987 and discovered carbon nanotubes in 1991. He is a recipient of the 1996 Asahi Award, the 2001 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize, B. E. Warren Diffraction Physics Award, Seto Award, Nishina Memorial Award, Asahi Award, Tsukuba Prize, and the McGroddy Materials Prize for 2002 from the ...

  5. 2007 Balzan Prize for Nanoscience. For his discovery of carbon nanotubes, in particular the discovery of single-wall carbon nanotubes and the study of their properties. Sumio Iijima, born in Saitama, Japan, on 2 May 1939, is a Japanese citizen. At present, he is Professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, Director of the Research Center for ...

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  7. Feb 29, 2016 · Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist best known for his discovery of carbon nanotubes. He graduated from the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo in 1963, and received a doctorate in solid-state physics from Tohoku University in Sendai in 1968.

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    Sumio Iijima (飯島 澄男, Iijima Sumio, born 2 May 1939) is a Japanese physicist and inventor, often cited as the inventor of carbon nanotubes.

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