Dr. Akira Tonomura appointed member of the Japan Academy
RIKEN
December 14, 2007
On December 12, 2007, Dr. Akira Tonomura, Group Director of Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group of the RIKEN Frontier Research System, and Senior Research Priority Committee Member, was honored as one of the nine new members of the Japan Academy, for his outstanding contribution to science.
We offer our sincere congratulations to Dr. Tonomura.


Photo, Dr. Akira Tonomura Other members of the Japan Academy from RIKEN include

Dr. Ryoji Noyori, President
Dr. Kumao Toyoshima, Science Advisor
Dr. Junichi Nishizawa, Science Advisor
Dr. Masatoshi Takeichi, Director of RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
Dr. Masao Ito, Senior Advisor
Dr. Kiminari Ishizaka, Senior Advisor


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Dr. Akira Tonomura
1965 Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Dept. of Physics
1965 Entered Hitachi, Ltd. and joined the Central Research
1975 Obtained Doctor of Engineering from Nagoya University
1993 Obtained Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Gakushuin University
1999-Present Fellow of Hitachi, Ltd.
2000-Present Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S.
2001-Present Group Director, Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group,
Frontier Research System, RIKEN
2002-Present Visiting Professor of Tokyo Denki University
2005-Present Principal Investigator at Promotion Corporation of Initial Research
Project Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
2005-Present Member of Science Council of Japan